Warring Alien and Predator races descend on a rural Colorado town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.Warring Alien and Predator races descend on a rural Colorado town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.Warring Alien and Predator races descend on a rural Colorado town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.
- Awards
- 5 nominations
Shareeka Epps
- Kendra
- (uncredited)
Michal Suchánek
- Nick
- (as Michal Suchanek)
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- TriviaIn one of the movie's behind-the-scenes featurettes, director of photography Daniel Pearl stated that he wanted to visually differentiate this movie from its predecessor Alien vs. Predator (2004), which he criticized for its use of fixed cameras, wide shots and excessively bright lighting, because in his opinion, this revealed way too much of the creatures. Reasoning that monster horror works better in dark environments with documentary-style photography, Pearl employed hand-held cameras and dimly illuminated sets to get the desired effect. Ironically, the film would later be criticized mostly for its overuse of 'shaky cam' and excessively murky lighting, with people complaining that they couldn't see much of the action.
- Goofs(at around 32 mins) If Wolf's purpose for coming to earth was to "clean" all evidence of the incident why did he skin Ray's body and leave it hanging for anyone to find instead of melting it down with acid like he did with all other bodies?
- Crazy creditsThe opening title card features many sound effects from the previous movies, such as motion tracker beeps from Aliens, and the Predator POV humming.
- Alternate versionsAliens vs. Predator: Requiem was released on DVD, Blu-ray and PSP UMD Disc on April 15, 2008, in North America and May 12, 2008, in the United Kingdom by Fox Home Entertainment. It was released in three versions: a single-disc, R-rated version of the 94-minute theatrical presentation, a single-disc unrated version extended to 101 minutes and a two-disc unrated version with the 101-minute film and a second disc of special features.
- ConnectionsEdited into Dragonball Evolution (2009)
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Believe it or not (and many fanboys don't), Aliens vs Predator was actually a financial success at the box office. Therefore a sequel was never going to be far behind. However, the studio was aware that the core Aliens/Predator fans felt short-changed from the first instalment, therefore the answer - apparently - was to make the sequel 'darker.' They succeeded. Aliens vs Predator 2 (or 'Requiem' for whatever reason) is indeed darker. In fact, sometimes it's so damn dark you can hardly see what's going on at all. Guess what... the fanboys still hated it.
In fact, it got such a bad reception (both critically and commercially) that it managed to kill the franchise (not counting Prometheus). Therefore, you could be forgiven for thinking that watching Aliens vs Predator 2 is not that far away from having needles stuck in your eyes for an hour and a half. But that's going a little too far.
It takes place only moments after the first film has ended. A half alien/half Predator has crash-landed on Earth, bringing with it a wave of death and destruction to a small American town. A 'cleaner' Predator is therefore despatched to sort it out so that the humans remain unaware of both races existence.
It's not as bad as some people make out. Yes, it's no classic, but it is your average monster-munching movie. And perhaps that's the problem. And film with either the 'aliens' or the 'Predator' attached to it is expected to be a hell of a lot better than your average monster-munching movie. And, sadly, this one will never achieve such a high status as its seventies/eighties predecessors.
It all seems a little like a teen slasher film. Instead of hardened soldiers (ala Predator), or Colonial Marines (ala Aliens), we have high school kids being stalked by the famous monsters. I can't put my finger on it, but it just doesn't really work.
No, AVP2 is not as bad as the real haters say, it's just that it could have been so much better. Don't set your expectations too high and you might get a decent (if practically pitch black) hour and a half out of it.
In fact, it got such a bad reception (both critically and commercially) that it managed to kill the franchise (not counting Prometheus). Therefore, you could be forgiven for thinking that watching Aliens vs Predator 2 is not that far away from having needles stuck in your eyes for an hour and a half. But that's going a little too far.
It takes place only moments after the first film has ended. A half alien/half Predator has crash-landed on Earth, bringing with it a wave of death and destruction to a small American town. A 'cleaner' Predator is therefore despatched to sort it out so that the humans remain unaware of both races existence.
It's not as bad as some people make out. Yes, it's no classic, but it is your average monster-munching movie. And perhaps that's the problem. And film with either the 'aliens' or the 'Predator' attached to it is expected to be a hell of a lot better than your average monster-munching movie. And, sadly, this one will never achieve such a high status as its seventies/eighties predecessors.
It all seems a little like a teen slasher film. Instead of hardened soldiers (ala Predator), or Colonial Marines (ala Aliens), we have high school kids being stalked by the famous monsters. I can't put my finger on it, but it just doesn't really work.
No, AVP2 is not as bad as the real haters say, it's just that it could have been so much better. Don't set your expectations too high and you might get a decent (if practically pitch black) hour and a half out of it.
- bowmanblue
- Jun 13, 2014
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- Aliens vs. Depredador 2
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- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $41,797,066
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,059,425
- Dec 30, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $130,290,885
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- 2.39 : 1
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What was the official certification given to Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) in Mexico?
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