Posted: Saturday 24th May 2008

Picking up immediately after the first movie finished, Alien Vs Predator: Requiem, the world is once again put in jeopardy when an alien bursts from the chest of a dead Predator aboard a Predator spaceship. After an onboard fight, the spaceship crashes and the aliens and hybrid creature (Predalien) escape. What ensues is a fight to the death and a stack of bodies.

We could tell you more about the movie’s plot but honestly there isn’t a great deal more to tell. The human characters serve only to be in peril and they are so underdeveloped that you don’t care what happens to them anyway. You’ve got the stereotypical badboy Dallas (Steven Pasquale) and the tough-as-old-boots Kelly O’Brien (Reiko Aylesworth) and a host of other non-descript characters. We have to say we’re incredibly disappointed with Reiko Aylesworth for getting involved with this project. We know they killed her character off in 24 but seriously that is no excuse!

On the plus side the movie does have some superb visuals and special effects. We’d like to say that these save the movie but actually they just make it bearable. The aliens look as creepy as ever and the Predators are suitably scary but they both lack the impact they had in their original movies. The battle sequences are exciting but we can’t help feeling that this series should have been left as comic books and console games rather than a movie series.

Extras on the Blu-ray version of the movie include two commentaries, six featurettes and a wealth of stills galleries.

Alien Vs Predator: Requiem is not a very good film. If you take the special effects and visuals away then there’s really no real reason to watch the movie at all. How a sequel ever got made is quite beyond us and with news of a third movie in the pipeline, we think we may give it a miss.