AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem (2007)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Directors:

Colin Strause
Greg Strause

Writers (WGA):

Shane Salerno (written by)
Dan O'Bannon ("Alien" characters) ...

Release Date:

25 December 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

This Christmas there will be no peace on Earth.

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Predator | Alien | Hybrid | Sheriff | Forest

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

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)

Also Known As:

AVP: Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem (USA) (DVD box title)
AVP: Requiem (USA) (DVD box title)
Alien vs. Predator: Survival of the Fittest (USA) (working title)
Aliens vs. Predator (USA) (working title)
Aliens vs. Predator 2 (Singapore: English title)
AvP2 (USA) (short title)
AvPR (International: English title) (short title)
Colorado Nights (USA) (fake working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, gore and language.

Runtime:

94 min | USA:102 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS (uncredited)

Certification:

Taiwan:R-18 | Ireland:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15 | Germany:18 | Australia:MA | Malaysia:18SG | South Korea:15 | Finland:K-18 (self applied) | Portugal:M/16 | Japan:PG-12 | Brazil:14 | Spain:18 | Argentina:16 | USA:R (No. 43617) | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Italy:VM18 | France:-12 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:18 (self applied) | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (unrated version) | Netherlands:16 | Canada:18A (Canadian Home Video rating) | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

This is the first time in the franchise that a Chestburster emerges from a child.

Goofs:

Continuity: The M4 Carbines wielded by the main characters are seen firing off more than their 30-round magazine without being reloaded.

Quotes:

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

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Brian Williams/Feist (#33.4)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

The Chopper

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.