Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
Two-dimensional characters traverse a world of awesome action that is muddled by an unwillingness to display that action.
If there's anything that genre fans don't mind watching, it's monster-on-monster action. The problem that arises in movies that attempt to focus on such a battle, though, is that filmmakers often expect the fighting to be so inherently entertaining that it will fuel itself. This approach never works. Such is the case with Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, a mindless film that would have been entertaining if it weren't for the fact that every fun element is counteracted by something else. It succeeds in demonstrating what elements a monster-versus-monster movie should have, but it fails to use those elements in a dynamic way.
AVP:R picks up right where the first Alien vs. Predator left off, with a Predator ship leaving our planet with some alien (xenomorph) specimens. A Predator-xenomorph hybrid has gotten loose on the ship, however, and the Predator trying to subdue it doesn't realize that it's bad to blast away recklessly at something when inside a spaceship. After inadvertently blowing a hole in the side of his vessel, he crashes back to Earth, dies, and thereby lets alien facehuggers loose in the woods near a small town. A superior Predator learns of his comrade’s death and heads to Earth to try to clean up after him, but it's too late. A group of characters have found themselves hunted down by the propagating aliens and then by the visiting Predator. From here it's a mish mash of scenes featuring the xenomorphs and the Predator hunting both each other and the human characters through perpetually dark locations.
A number of subplots involving an ex-con's friendship with the sheriff, a teenage boy's romance with a girl whose ex-boyfriend beats him up, and a soldier's return to her family are tossed together to give us some human characters to follow through the film's events and, in some cases, to serve as alien/Predator fodder. These subplots, however, go nowhere. Nothing results from the fact that main character Dallas (who is also the brother of, Ricky, the kid in love) has just been released from prison. The same goes for Ricky's budding relationship with the girl with which he has been in love. The few elements of the love story that are touched on are brief, inconsequential, and unimaginative. The focus of the film is the Predator/xenomorph action, which is fine, but the writers seem to be trying to convince us that there's a true story beneath these events. There isn't.
One commendable aspect of the film is the fact that the writers consider all characters dispensable, no matter how prominent their roles are or how innocent they may be. Even the most helpless individuals are killed for the propagation of the xenomorph race. This is a refreshing change from most movies of this type, which preserve their main characters at all costs. However, even this devotion to letting all plausible deaths occur is counteracted by the fact that none of the characters are worth caring about. They are given only the thinnest backgrounds and the most standard dialogue. When one character naïvely says, “That’s crazy. The government doesn’t lie to people,” it is supposed to be an epiphany for her. Instead, it challenges the verisimilitude of the character. When Jesse strips down to her bikini and asks Ricky, “Are you looking at me … or the clock?” the movie sinks to simple teenage drama. There is no way to relate to these characters. So, despite the writers’ willingness to kill any of them when it is fitting or necessary to do so, the deaths have no impact on the viewer. We may be surprised, but we are never hurt.
There is some good action here, but the lighting is so dark and the camera so close that it often cannot be made out. The filmmakers go to pains to ensure that all action involving Predators or xenomorphs takes place in a pitch black setting, not only placing most of the events at night but by having the Predator accidentally knock out the town's power in the middle of the film. So, despite the Predators and aliens actually being involved in some cool attacks on both each other and the human characters, the screen is often too dark to provide the detail we want to see. On top of that, the camera is frequently too close to the creatures. We’ll get a glimpse of a xenomorph head, for instance, and the creature will then move around and run off, but the camera stays in the same place, allowing us to see only vague body parts rushing across the screen. It is clear that the Predator and alien were chosen for their visual appeal, not for what they can offer the story, so why don’t we get to see them clearly?
There are plenty of film fans who would bash AVP:R simply because it is the successor to the mess that was the first Alien vs. Predator. However, this film is far better than that installment. Unfortunately, even being far better than AVP means there’s a long distance to go before you approach “good” territory, and AVP:R is not strong enough to make it that far. There are occasional fun moments to be found in this film, but the bulk of it is obscured by poor characterization and a reluctance to display the film’s imagery clearly.




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I haven’t seen this movie on a new flat screen, but watching it on a conventional television is like watching radio. During the big action scenes, you hear lots of screams, but the picture is too dark to see anything.
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i dont see how its too dark
i dont see how its too dark ive watched it on a regular tv screen and i can see it fine
My response would be to check
My response would be to check out the following *promotional* stills for the movie (along with the one above in this review):
http://www.moviepicturedb.com/picture/fa3b1d2a?qid=1
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Maybe you watched it at night
Maybe you watched it at night with all the lights out, but we watched it during the day and all I was able to see was the refection of our living room.
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