They come across as silly and vaguely ridiculous. The aliens in particular do not work in this sort of environment. For one thing the film relocates the action for the first time to a small town in contemporary America. I wrote ‘very little’, and that leads to the second critical flaw of the film: what few new elements that are introduced are very poorly considered. There is very little at work that is original to the franchise in any way. Firstly, and more than any other film of the ten, it works as a haphazard greatest hits package of scenes, dialogue, action beats and camera angles from Alien, Aliens and Predator. It is a failure for two pretty obvious reasons. There is no hidden under-appreciated gem to be found. Whether a critic, a fan, or a disinterested bystander, nothing in the franchise is as bad as this.Īlien vs Predator: Requiem (often shortened to AVPR) is not a good film.
No Alien film is less popular than Requiem. General viewers, usually more forgiving, still only rate it at 30% – that’s while giving AvP and Resurrection 39%. At the time of writing the critics of Rotten Tomatoes have given it an aggregated score of 12%.
It cannot be said of Alien vs Predator: Requiem. The same came be said of Alien vs Predator to a large extent. It is simply as if the relevant executives at Fox saw where their combined film series was headed and simply broke it up before too much damage was done.Īlien³ and Alien Resurrection both came out on the receiving end of fairly harsh criticism, but at the same time both had their respective fans.
It was not a matter of money: Alien vs Predator: Requiem turned a reasonable profit. After one sequel directed by visual effects specialists Colin and Greg Strause Alien vs Predator was stone-cold dead, with each property splitting back off into its respective franchise. Anderson directed Alien vs Predator and earned 20th Century Fox a tidy profit, it seemed as if the studio had a pulp B-grade movie franchise on its hands. For the unsuspecting humans in Gunnison, Colorado, it means a long night of violence and terror as they run around like panicky kittens trying to survive.Īfter Paul W.S. When a number of facehuggers emerge from the wreckage and begin impregnating the humans, another Predator arrives to clean up the mess. After an alien bursts from the chest of a dead Predator, its spacecraft crashes into the woods outside a small American town.
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