AVP: Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem

Really GREAT DVD made an EXCELLENT CHRISTMAS GIFT. Person that received it loves to watch Predator fight.Cast Includes: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)A little town in the hills of Colorado will become the battleground between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial lifeforms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien facehuggers are released in the crash, and an even more evil creature - a hybrid Alien/Predator - is also released. A man & his son hunting in the forests near the crash site soon become the first victims of the facehuggers, and when a Predator receives data about the crash on his home planet, he comes to Earth. One at a time, the inhabitants of the town become targets of the Aliens and the Predator, including the local sheriff, a young female soldier recently returned from Iraq, and several teens. Though the National Guard is called in, they are unable to stop the deadly creatures, and a plan is set in motion to destroy the town with a nuclear device... Written by Derek O'CainIn Gunnison County, a spacecraft crashes in the woods bringing a powerful hybrid Alien hosted inside the pilot Predator. The 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 destroying the evidences 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 the leadership between Sheriff Eddie Morales and the bad-boy Dallas Howard that have different opinions about the best means to escape from the beings.Two Predators load several live Alien facehuggers and his dead comrade onto a ship, intending to return to the Predator homeworld. Unbeknown to him, the dead comrade was impregnated with an Alien before dying. The alien bursts from the corpse's chest, then quickly grows into a Predator-Alien hybrid (Tom Woodruff, Jr). The hybrid attacks the crew, killing them and forcing the ship to crash land in Gunnison, Colorado. Before one of the Predators is killed, he sends a distress call to the homeworld. His message is received by a Predator warrior (Ian Whyte) who immediately embarks on the journey to earth to rectify the situation. Meanwhile, the facehuggers escape from the crashed ship and impregnate a father and son hunting team (Kurt Max Runte and Liam James) and, later, two homeless men living in the sewer system.Dallas (Steven Pasquale) returns to Gunnison after a stint in the state penitentiary. He is picked up at the bus station by Morales (John Ortiz); Dallas and Morales used to be partners in crime, but Morales is now the county's sheriff. Also arriving home is Kelly (Reiko Aylesworth), after a tour of duty in Iraq. Her husband, Tim (Sam Trammel) is overjoyed to see her, but their daughter, Molly (Ariel Gade), is unsure of how to react to her mother's return. She does, however, enjoy the night-vision goggles Kelly brought home as a souvenir. Meanwhile, Dallas's younger brother Ricky (Johnny Lewis), is beaten up by Dale (David Paetkau) and his friends. Ricky has been flirting with Dale's girlfriend, Jesse (Kristin Hager). The fight is the last straw and Jesse breaks things off with Dale. She invites Ricky to go skinny-dipping with her at the high school's pool later that night.The Predator arrives and scavenges weapons from the downed vessel then destroys it. He uses an acid to destroy the corpses of the alien's current victims as well as the facehuggers he finds. When Deputy Ray stumbles upon the scene, the Predator kills him and skins his corpse. When Morales and Dallas find Ray's body, they realize that something horrible is stalking the town.The Predator tracks the aliens to the city's sewer system. He dispatches several but is caught off-guard by the Pred-Alien. The Pred-Alien and other aliens escape into the city and begin to attack the citizens. The Predator follows one to the city's nuclear power station. In the ensuing battle, the station is damaged and the city loses power. Morales realizes that the entire county is in danger and orders the town evacuated. He also requests National Guard assistance. The Pred-Alien realizes he can use fertile women to create hordes of aliens without needing facehuggers. At the local hospital, it injects alien larvae into all of the pregnant mothers in the maternity ward. Within hours, a small army of aliens has been created.At the high school, Ricky's swim date with Jesse is interrupted when Dale and his friends arrive and attack Ricky. Before they can drown him in the pool, an alien arrives and kills Dale's friends. Jesse, Ricky and Dale escape and find Morales and Dallas at the power station. They tell them what has happened, which Morales and Dallas largely confirm by visiting the school. They don't find any corpses, however, as the Predator has already been there to kill the alien and destroy the evidence. Morales, Dallas, Ricky, Jesse and Dale realize they need weapons to protect themselves and break into a local sporting goods store. They are joined by Kelly and Molly, who have been attracted by the flashing lights on Morales's squad car. Earlier, an alien had attacked their home, killing Tim.Morales makes contact with the arriving National Guardsmen. All he hears, however, is the sound of them being slaughtered by the aliens. Then aliens appear in the sporting goods store. However, the Predator has followed them there and kills the aliens. Dale's face is melted off by alien acid blood but the others escape. They make their way to the scene of the Guardsmen slaughter. Kelly knows how to drive the tanks, so they all climb in. Morales contacts Col. Stevens (Robert Joy), who tells them to head to the center of town to be airlifted out of town. However, the plan is not to airlift anyone to safety but instead to use the townspeople as bait to draw the aliens to one area and then destroy everyone with a small nuclear bomb. Kelly realizes that they will all die if they do as Stevens tells them but Morales doesn't believe her. When they encounter a number of other people headed towards the center of town, Morales joins them; Kelly, Molly, Dallas, Ricky and Jesse head for the hospital, where they will use the med-evac helicopter to fly to safety.The hospital is overrun with aliens, and the Predator arrives to destroy them. Making their way up the stairs, the humans run into the middle of a Predator-Alien battle. Jesse is impaled by the Predator's flying daggers. Enraged, Ricky attacks the Predator with a machine gun but before the Predator can kill him, the aliens knock it down an elevator shaft. Ricky is wounded but will live. The Predator leaves behind a pulse rifle, which Dallas picks up. They make their way to the roof, but aliens block their path to the helicopter. As Dallas uses the pulse rifle to hold off the aliens, Kelly gets the helicopter started. Just as the aliens are about to surround and kill Dallas, the Predator arrives and kills off the remaining aliens. Dallas boards the helicopter and they fly away as the Predator and Pred-Alien duel to the death.At the center of town, the humans are surrounded by aliens. Looking up to the skies in hopes of seeing rescue helicopters, Morales instead sees a jet fighter drop a bomb; he realizes Kelly was right as the town and all of the remaining aliens are incinerated, including the Predator and Pred-Alien who are locked in each other's death grip. Kelly manages to pilot the helicopter to a fairly safe crash landing. They are surrounded by other Guardsmen who disarm them and provide medical care to Ricky. They confiscate the Predator pulse rifle from Dallas.Col. Stevens takes the Predator pulse rifle to Ms. Yutani (Francoise Yip). She tells him that the earth is not ready for the technology it represents. Col. Stevens knows Yutani doesn't want the technology to use on earth.Thank you for this DVD. It was a GREAT ITEM.

I actually enjoyed Alien Vs Predator 2 I was disapointed with the first Alien Vs Predator as i did not like the whole plot and story. But with AVP 2 they atleast went back to the old aliens and predator themes. The first film didn't really have as much of the atmosphere of aliens and predator i mean don't get me wrong it did have alittle but it held back. AVP 2 isn't flawless but its a improvement in my opinion. The predator was back to a more old predator design but still with its own look and a new look aswell. I was concerned that when i heard about the predalien that they might mess up the look. Though you don't see the whole creature but i think they did a good job with the design it looked like half predator and half alien. It was new and it was cool to see a new kind of alien something we didn't see in the other alien films. The plot isn't bad though the characters most are not interesting some are likeable... But i can forgive the boring characters since our real focus is on the predator alien battle thats whats important. And another problem that many have complained about are how dark some of the scenes are in the final battle between the predator and predator alien its very dark at times you can't see whats going on its very distracting. But i enjoyed the film none the less. The plot and story picks up where the first film left off the predator ship carrying the predator known as scar from the battle at the pyramid who was killed by the queen alien who also was pregnated by a alien. His body is left on a table in the ship as it departs earth then a alien chest burster bursts its way out of scars chest then quickly attacks most of the predators on the ship. The ship crashed onto earth in Colorado where the predalien and several other aliens escape and began attacking people breeding many aliens who infest the town. A lone predator is sent down to clean up the mess. He arrives at the the crash site and enters the predators crashed ship and uses one of thr dead predators helmets to watch the video play back of what happened then he gears up with weapons and prepares for battle. He hunts down some aliens in a sewer taking them out but is unable to kill the predalien who retreats up to the city. The predator hunts down and kills several alien in a power plant where the battle knocks out all power in the city. Meanwhile the predalien attack a young woman working at a restaurant who is revealed to be pregnant. It is revealed that the predalien is some kind of queen and she can force alien embryos down the throats of pregnant women to spawn more aliens. After planting alien babies into the woman working at the restaurant aliens burst out of her stomach. The predalien enters a hospital and begans the samething impregnating pregnant women at the hospital. Predator arrives and begins battling several aliens while a group of survivors also take shelter in the hospital they quickly get caught up in the middle of the predator and alien fight. Marines or some kind of army force plan to bomb the whole town to contain the problem. The final battle between the predator and predalien finally happens they pick each other apart in a gruesome battle unto the marines bomb the town destroying everything. The final survivors escape the city before the explosion. The ending reveals that the marines found one of the predators weapons and a cia like woman says the world isn't ready for this kind of technology leaving open for a sequel. My final thoughts on the film is that its a great ride its got many ingredients that are in the other alien and predator films its a fun movie to watch if you're a predator or alien fan. Its got plenty of gore that was not present on the first film. I think the film is underrated it's not as bad as others say.

I’m a huge fan of Predator and I am an even bigger fan of the Alien franchise, I’ve seen all the movies, read all the novels, listened to the audio books, have the comics etc, I’m telling you, this film people, it is GARBAGE, don’t waste your time or money, it’s so poorly shot you stop being able to watch mid way through regardless of the effort because of poor cinematography, AVP (1) is a watchable shoot em up, this however is just a cash grab by the studio which thanks to its existence, cheapened two of cinemas greatest sci-fi/horror franchises, avoid, you’ll be thankful.

Before watching I would strongly recommend turning the brightness up high on your tv, this helps the film a lot. I have watched this film 3 times now, once in the cinema upon release and once it was on sky probs the syfy channel and the 3rd time was on this blu ray. Without a doubt this is the best version by a country mile. I cant even recall being able too see anything but darkness on any over version but the blu ray copy. After turned the bightness up I had literally no problems with darkness except in bits here and there.The major problem I found with this movie was the same problems I had with the first, The fight scenes are just way to close to the camera, I'm guessing it's because the way the alien is designed it's very difficult to get a close up hand to hand brawl with a predator, with the over alien films it not to much of an issue as if an alien is that close to someone it's likely that close up shot wont need to stay up close too long before that person is worm food.The plot is only there to serve as filler between the alien and predator fight scenes. The acting is ok, there's some questionable scenes that made me scratch my head.I think the major problem with the avp films is that they feel too much like a predator film with aliens in it, don't get me wrong I love the predator films as much as the next guy, but they simply don't compare to the masterpieces that are alien and aliens. Hopefully one day someone will make an avp movie with alien and aliens in mind, and take it seriously, but until then we have avp and avp requiem.I prefer the alien and predators, and the fight scenes in this movie a lot more than the first, the final fight was a bit of a let down compared to the 1st one,but apart from that it's watch able as long as u have the brightness cranked up.

For me, this is a very guilty pleasure. I remember first watching it thinking it was terrible, jaw droppingly bad, the terrible soap opera script, bad lighting, underwhelming fight scenes, poor acting, the lot. I thought I would never watch it again. A couple of years passed and I happened to watch it again at a friends and I actually liked it a lot more. I have since purchased it on blu ray (to complete my alien / predator collection). This is similar to my opinion of Jaws the revenge, a terrible film but one I could just put on and get some strange enjoyment out of it. As long as you do not go into it expecting the quality of Aliens or Predator, and just a bit of forgettable entertainment there is some enjoyment to be had and in some ways better at least than AVP which itself is still watchable.For the blu ray itself, I am the bearer of good and bad news. As you are probably aware from previous reviews, the film is very dark and it can be quite hard to see everything that is going on in the more frenetic scenes which is a choice of the movie makers no matter how much you turn up the brightness. That being said, the picture is excellent with deep blacks and no obtrusive grain which can be quite difficult with a film set mostly during the night and considering the films reputation it is a better transfer than one would have imagined. The sound is excellent as well with all the sound stage of a 5.1 system utilised to great effect.Now, the bad news. For some reason only the theatrical cut of the movie is on the disc, not the unrated version which is a lot better, I think it is about 7 - 9mins longer. There is more violence and scenes changed to the benefit of the movie. It is on the dvd so why not here?! The scenes are in the deleted scenes as an extra but not good enough in my opinion. For a film with a bad reputation that is noticeably better as an extended version you would have thought that version would have been released, i do not understand. I have the unrated dvd but the quality of the picture is not very good, reminding me of a second rate direct to video movie that used inadequate cameras, grainy and lifeless.I am on the fence between 2 stars and 3 stars but I can not be too lenient as I know I am in the minority of liking it, but that is just me. As a film judged on quality, 2 stars is being quite generous.If anyone is interested, check out the review for AVP:R on 'DVD verdict'. This guy REALLY likes this movie! http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/avpr.php

I love the Alien and Predator films. I love AVP. This film however is dark, and I don't mean in a brooding way like Batman. For pretty much most of the film, whether the scene is in daylight, or underground, most, if not all the screen is in complete blackness. Don't think cranking the brightness up is going help either. I get a stylistic choice of cranking contrast and colour grading, but I don't think they even bothered to light this movie at all.Don't waste your time

I am afraid to say I was very disappointed with this effort. My main criticism is the way it has been shot; almost all the scenes were filmed in almost total darkness, meaning that the action was so difficult to see that I lost interest early on.The plot itself was not bad; an alien makes it to earth from within a crashed space craft, and slowly but inevitably multiplies to the point where the aliens are in control of their immediate surroundings, the town where the action takes place. Help is called for, which is a long time coming, during which time the aliens wreak ever more havoc. But help, when it does arrive, means the end for the town and its surviving inhabitants. The 'powers that be' have decided that the only way to halt the inexorable spread of the aliens is to nuke the town, having duped the people to gather in the centre first, thereby drawing all the aliens after them.I regret to say I cannot recommend this as a fitting end to the Alien series.