It's such a shame to see something you are a fan of butchered and ruined as much as this was. I make no excuses that i love pretty much all the first 4 alien films (yes even Alien Resurrection). I rank Aliens in my top5 of all time, and Predator in my top 30. However the situation in relation to Requiem gets worse, because we have to remember this isn't the first AVP film. The first one was bland, boring and cliched. This film was just out right wrong and horrible.
One of the saving graces of the first AVP in 2004 was that the action was pretty fair, but here, well i'm sure it would be good if we good see the goddamn thing. It's near impossible to tell which of the creatures is throwing the punch at any given time. Dull, dark and murky camera shots provide plenty of fustration for a fan of the alien/predator franchise (independently). Every Cliched music cue, every over the top action sequence its all here.
The crap doesn't stop with the mise-en-scene the general direction, the characters too. Whether it's the stereotypical (if you're in the movie "Grease") teen bully boys are tourment one of our leads with childish fighting and all that. The obiviously only there for male gaze teen female lead, and boy was the male gaze abused in this film. Oh and not too mention the "we're not trying to tap into and con exisiting fans because signourney knows when to quit" Riply-esque character, who falls for Hicks...oh sorry i mean Dallas....
All iin all this film was pretty damn poor in nearly every respect. With negative reviews i tend to keep them short because the film dosen't deserve much attention , even if all bad. On my other site i gave AVP2 a D- , with it being saved from an F because the fact at least it was another chance to see aliens / predator on screen. However this is the ONLY redeeming factor, seeing them on screen...when you can, when they're not just a grey blur of un-needed camera movement.
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