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DVD Review: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
By Dave Dreher

May 2, 2008, 22:36

I really enjoy the premise of this film. I think the idea of bringing those nasty ass Aliens and the just as deadly Predator home to earth to eat up rural America is a good one. My main problem with this film is that portions of it are just incredibly dark. Like “I can't see a damn thing” dark.

You would have thought that someone would have noticed that portions of this film are completely unwatchable not because they are bad but because no one bothered to shine any light on what the hell was going one. Some of the stuff that takes places in the sewers is just completely black.

I understand the need to set mood and tone but damn folks, buy a light bulb.

It really makes it hard to do a proper review as so much of the film can't be seen and I know it isn't just me btw, my buddies over at deadpit.com reviewed it as well and they talked long and hard about how it was hard to see what was going on, but I will review what I as able to see.

So it goes something like this. A Predator ship is floating through space and we witness the birth of an Alien / Predator half breed as one of our chest bursting buddies comes flying out of a disabled Predator and the ship proceeds to crash into Earth. Right in the middle nowhere USA. It just so happens that a man and his young son are hunting in the woods and witness the crash and head on over to check it out. They soon realize that they are stumbling into something way over their heads and soon after that become Alien food.

The creatures slither out of the crashed ship and into the sewer system of small town USA and proceed to grow and breed and get nastier and nastier. The film proceeds pretty much were you would expect it to and soon the intergalactic baddies are reeking havoc all over town as the population attempts to come to grips with what is going on.

There are some truly awesome scenes int his film and then of course there are those scenes that you can't see, particularly the stuff in the sewers.

This one is leaps and bounds better then the original and as I mentioned above, there are some truly disturbing scenes to behold. The maternity ward stuff is pretty disturbing and quite creepy.

I also enjoyed some of the new cool ass weapons that they give the Predator and the hybrid off spring is pretty cool as well.

I guess my major problem was just with the dark scenes because it really does seem that there is some pretty cool stuff going on and it is pretty damn aggravating to not be able to see it.

I have a feeling with haven't seen the end of this franchise lets just hope next time that someone looks at the dailies and remembers to shine a light on what is going on.

AVP: R is available now everywhere DVD's are rented or sold.