Customer Reviews
AVP - By: Mr. J. Arnold, 29 Jun 2008 
I think people are reviewing AVP abit harshley oh sure its not the best film to ever come along but it's most deffinitly not the worst. And a little pointer to those who say "Oh its a B movie Alien n Predator would never meet" to them I say please go & watch Predator 2 because I & 30000 over people recalll seeing an Alien skull on the trophy rack.
Ok anyway time for the review Alien Vs Predator:
The plot YES their IS a plot!! Centuries ago Predators were worshiped as Gods on earth & taught man how to civilise & build etc, In return alll they wanted was a sacrafice to breed the ultimate prey (Alien, well ok so its a little unexplained where they got the aliens from but nevermind its a sci fi it doesnt have to make sense)
During the century long break Alaska has been used as a hunting ground for young predators to earn their rank & prove themselves by hunting Aleins & bringing back as many skulls as they can.
Eventuallly Wayland Yutani recive a climate discovery in Alaska & are sent into investigate what it is, Throughout the film they get caught in a warzone between the Two alien species.
The acting in this film is pretty shcoking at times with the exception of the guy that played Bishop in Alen & Aliens.
And a little too much on the CGI with the Aliens when you consider that the original Alien movies excluding 3 nd ressurection where alll a guy in a realistic looking suit but some of the fight scenes make up for it.
Overalll if your a fan of action/sci fi/horror films then your going to like not love AVP but if your a die hard alien & predator fan you might feel a little bit cheated by this new incarnation.
The story is ok the action is good the acting is forgivable.
At the price being offerd its a good cheap thrill.
Worth a rent at least.
An entertaining film - By: Lloyds Tsb, 06 Jun 2008 
a lot of people have pinned this film down for being a pg-13 (or 15, even) instead of an R rating (or 18). Ok, so that does affect the movie somewhat, but not that badly. if you get it out of your mind that the rating is lowered, & just sit back & watch it, then it is actuallly a good movie. not great, but not bad either. a decent start to a possible franchise. it has aliens, predators, the humans & it gives the species a good reason to actuallly fight each other. there could have been more fight scenes, i'll give you that, & also the suspense was lacking aswell (and looking at Paul Anderson's previous work, like Event Horizon,he can definitely do suspense very well). the ending is left open, which is fine. All that needs to be done for the sequel is to improve on what was already good about this one (oh, & give us an 18/R rating please).
Not great, but frequently underestimated fun - By: Beedo Sookcool, 29 May 2008 Now that the sequel is out, I think it's time for a reassessment of the original "Aliens vs. Predator" film. Despite its faults, I never thought the first "AvP" movie was bad. Okay, the Aliens going from egg to full-grown warrior in about an hour was ridiculous in the extreme, but the rest of it ain't that bad.
Plot-wise, it's based semi-loosely on the first "AvP" comic book by Dark Horse. You have the Yautja (Predators, for you non-übergeeks) setting up a rite-of-passage hunt for their adolescents. This involves luring some Humans to a hunting ground where they will become the hosts for some xenomorphs, which the Predator youngsters will then hunt for their first blooding. There's some VERY Danikenite backstory in there, which is VERY cool. And then the rest is adrenaline-fuelled carnage, with the Yautja originallly out to kill the Aliens AND any surviving Humans, but, like the original, the last Predator teams up with the last Human to wipe out the hive.
It's SO close to the original Dark Horse story, that I think I would've preferred to see THAT filmed, but "AvP" does provide some nifty links & foreshadowing to hint at how Humanity gets from its current level of technology to the starfaring species seen in "Alien." Apart from the vastly improved special effects, "AvP" is not the best movie in the Fox Studios Vicious Beasties From Outer Space Franchise, but I still think it's worth a watch. (Also, it's got the painfully cool Lance Henriksen in it, & I happen to think Sanaa Lathan is real purty, which swung my opinion.) "Citizen Kane" it's not, but "AvP" scores so high on the Cool Graph for me that I'm willing to overlook most flaws. Except for the rapid-growth Aliens one.
If given the choice between a single-disc Regular Edition or a multi-disc Special Edition, I'll go for the latter every time. There are loads of nifty behind-the-scenes stuff on Disc 2 of this set, but those are mostly for the die-hard fans, like me. Casual viewers may want to save their money & get the single-disc Regular Version.
gripping entertainment ! - By: jack firestick, 17 May 2008 
until today i had never seen A V P ,alll the negative feedback reviews put me off , but this was 108 minutes of popcorn entertainment.true the film is not your usual alien gorefest but i was more than satisfied with the unrated r1 2 disc dvd,in my opinon this movie is better than A V P requiem
so there folks.buy this version you have standard theater & unrated,great,
i would watch this again soon.
Nothing to write home about, - By: Garry Williams, 31 Mar 2008 watched Alien last night which leads me to feel inspired enough to jot down something about Aliens vs. Predator Requiem... A film in which the cast of a one of those MTV reality soaps gets torn apart by angry, spike covered, goo spitting genitals from outer space... in the rain. (And man is there lots of goo, green glowing predator goo, yellow face melting alien goo, oddly pointless UV predator csi multi-surface cleaning goo, it's like an episode of funhouse in there). Right after the events of AVP 1 the predators crash land in a sleepy town the aliens escape & the splatter fest begins. I'll get this out of the way, this IS way better than the first one in my view, & I enjoyed it at the time, though I hated myself for it later. For starters there is plenty of Alien on Predator action, yup the angry parasitic phalllus & the gynaecologicallly faced gun totin' rastaphibian freak actuallly lock up as if they mean it (it's alll about gender see, yeah... they um... even sire offspring together... hrm) unlike in that flaccid exhibition bout in the crystal maze we were subjected to 3 years ago. This time out the human cast are nothing but meat for the grinder (which is both YAY & BOO actuallly), these characters are treated much in the way you would expect from one of the later Jason flicks. There is no tension & no subtlety or even a plot here they just get straight at it meat & potatoes style, herein also lies the films big flaw... The fights whilst being placed front & centre (as you would want) are singularly uninspired ugly & in hindsight kinda tedious. It's like watching 70's wrestling, in monster suits, the whole thing reeks of bad toho. (Which I think, is why at the time I liked it more than it deserved). The script is awful, reallly awful, world beatingly awful, offensively bad, the makers of this film have nothing but contempt for their audience. This is lowest common denominator tripe, the bare minimum they could do on the lowest available budget to get the rubes out of bed. AvP:R is as workmanlike as downing tools & jerking off to page 3 of the sun in a portacabin whilst eating a bacon sandwich... The human meat lethargicallly slurring out lines like `People are dying... we need guns!' with the commitment of night club toilet attendants or those guys from oxford street that wear the signs. Though slagging off the script seems as pointless as critiquing porn. AVP remorselessly cannibalises as many of the sounds, scenes, & musical accompaniments from the original films as possible. The clattering of mother the Nostromo's computer, the video camera gun battle from aliens, snatches of Jerry Goldsmith's score, the predator removing his mask for the final fight. It has it's moments, a glimpse of the predator home world. A legend of the overfiend style segment in a maternity ward & the opening skirmishes get the pulse racing, but these hip moments are few & far between... There are so many missed opportunities here... this could have been a mid west earth hive with predators. the contant cloying 'homages' to the real films are pathetic, it's like watching a bad covers band... You know on stars in their eyes when an overweight bank manager dressed like a jerk minces onto the stage, mops the greasy sweat from his shiny forehead, & triumphantly brays `tonight I'm going to be axel rose' before bludgeoning paradise city to death for his 6 million strong audience of brain dead rictus grinning cattle? AvP:R is that. A Fast food monster mash, a heavy metal X-factor cover version of a masterpiece... Going with the fast food metaphor, I ate my poop & cheese in a bap knowing exactly what it was & I enjoyed it. But felt sick as soon as I got home. It is bleak though, AvP:R is rather like finding the 2 greatest gladiators of the age down, out, & drunkenly brawling in the geek pit of a grimy suburban carnival for loose change. It is momentarily exciting seeing your favourite monsters in `new' scenarios but after the fact AvP:R is profoundly depressing. A joyless cheap utilitarian knee trembler that everyone involved wanted over as quickly as possible. (It's ok to use alll these sexual metaphors when the monsters look like the contents of a bathing suit) Requiem surely an appropriate title as this must be the end... it must be right. I won't even start on the plot holes & awful attempts to shoe horn it into the wider aliens continuity... yeesh. Either watch the originals again... or if you want gory hokey intergalactic monsters whooping it up in a smalll town done well check out slither.
