Comments on: REVIEW: Alien vs Predator: Requiem (2007)

By: Luke H

Luke H — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 08:55:03 +0000

There is only one thing I can give AVPR credit for and that is the particularly mean spirited approach it takes towards violence inflicted by xenomorph.

– Oh you’re a kid? Alien doesn’t care.
– Homeless person? Cop this.
– Pregnant women? Extremely rapey gore scene.

Bad taste aside (and it is in bad taste), I can appreciate that this is the only film where the xenos truly have no moral compass. I have no idea if this is accidental or intentional by the filmmakers. It is just something that always stood our for me.

By: Stephen Dedman

Stephen Dedman — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 05:35:36 +0000

Actually, I quite liked it.
Ok, that’s not strictly true. I just didn’t dislike it as much as I disliked the utterly ludicrous AvP, possibly because that had lowered my expectations so far that seeing this on DVD seemed an acceptable way to pass the time. With its real-world(ish) rural setting, it felt like a run-of-the-mill straight-to-video American action-horror monster movie, whereas AvP felt too much like a particularly silly big budget adaptation of a video game.