Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
"AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem" (original title)

Warring alien and predator races descend on a small town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.

Directors:

Colin Strause, Greg Strause

Writers:

Shane Salerno, Dan O'Bannon ("Alien" characters),

Stars:

Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Steven Pasquale	...	Dallas
Reiko Aylesworth	...	Kelly
John Ortiz	...	Morales
Johnny Lewis	...	Ricky
Ariel Gade	...	Molly
Kristen Hager	...	Jesse
Sam Trammell	...	Tim
Robert Joy	...	Col. Stevens
David Paetkau	...	Dale
Tom Woodruff Jr.	...	Alien
Ian Whyte	...	Predator
Chelah Horsdal	...	Darcy
Meshach Peters	...	Curtis
Matt Ward	...	Mark
Michal Suchánek	...	Nick (as Michal Suchanek)

Storyline

In Gunnison County, a spacecraft crashes in the woods bringing a powerful hybrid Alien hosted inside the pilot Predator. A local, Buddy Benson, and his son, Sam, are hunting in the forest and witness the crash, but they are chased and killed by the Alien. Meanwhile another Predator lands on the spot seeking out the Alien and destroys evidence of their presence on Earth. The dwellers of the town find themselves in the middle of a battlefield between the two deadly extraterrestrial creatures, and the small group of survivors splits between the leadership of Sheriff Eddie Morales and the bad-boy Dallas Howard. Both have different opinions about the best means to escape from the beings.

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Plot Keywords:

alien | predator | spacecraft | hunting | hybrid | 

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Taglines:

This Christmas there will be no peace on Earth.

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence, gore and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [jp]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 December 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

AVP: Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem

Filming Locations:

Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£1,970,363 (UK) (18 January 2008)

Gross:

$41,797,066 (USA) (21 March 2008)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Davis Entertainment, Brandywine Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min 102 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS (uncredited)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

A voice artist was brought in to perform various Predator noises after the directors realized that audio samples and tapes containing the original sound effects had been either destroyed or of poor quality.

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Goofs

In addition to the fact that the unit and flag patches are reversed on Kelly's uniform, the flag patches seen by the National Guard troops are backwards (and still on the incorrect shoulder).

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Quotes

[first lines]
Buddy Benson: OK, now, take your time. There you go.

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Crazy Credits

The opening title card features many sound effects from the previous movies, such as motion tracker beeps from Aliens, and the Predator POV humming.

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Connections

Follows Alien³ (1992)

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Soundtracks

"The Chopper"
Composed by Alan Silvestri
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

User Reviews

Blood and Guts

I was psyched to go see this movie. I was not a fan of the first AvP and I like so many others, chalked its awfulness up to being rated PG 13 and focusing on the human side of the story. Once I saw that red R glistening after the AvP, I was excited. As it turns out, I was wrong. Certainly there is a good amount of gore in AvPR, melting limbs, dismemberments, even some violence against children. The Predator is once again, the most bad-ass extraterrestrial on Earth, and it was fun to see the infamous predalien. But the movie just sucks. I tried really hard to look past its gaping plot holes, inane dialogue, and vapid characters, and I pretty much succeeded in not letting those inadequacies bother me. It was the pacing and the lack of tension that killed the movie for me. There was no sense of dread in the flick, no impending doom or even a sense of diabolical hunt. It just, sort of, happened, and then was over. Some fun homages to the originals: amongst them the return of the all-time great line: "Get to the chopper!" And again, some fun blood and executions, but no tension, no dread, no guts in the otherwise bloody film.