So lacking in imagination is this movie that the Brothers Strause and writer Shane Salerno keep scrambling back to the original movie for inspiration. The ex-con’s younger brother (Johnny Lewis) is fighting off the town bully over a girl (Kristen Hager) but all is swiftly forgotten as the teens get dispatched one by one. In fact, he is so nuts he keeps bringing along an ex-con (Steven Pasquale), just out of prison, on all his investigations. The town’s sheriff (John Ortiz) is overwhelmed. The town blacks out on a rainy night while the rampaging monsters devour and destroy humans left and right. Trouble is he isn’t too careful about what else he hits - humans or a nuclear power plant. The Aliens incubate and reproduce in humans at a rapid rate so Gunnison becomes a virtual shooting gallery for the sometimes invisible Predator.
Another Predator follows his pal, discovers him dead, gets all emotional, then goes on an Alien hunting trip. A great screen moment turned into to a carny sideshow.Īliens cause a Predator spacecraft to crash near the small Colorado mountain town of Gunnison, killing the Predator pilot. Weren’t moviegoers supposed to have fainted? Here the directors, who bill themselves as the Brothers Strause, get to that moment right away - and then again and again and again. Familiarity has done them in.Ĭonsider that great signature moment from Ridley Scott’s “Alien” way back in 1979, when an alien baby burst unexpectedly from a poor astronaut’s gut. The old A and P monsters just aren’t what they used to be.
“AVP” grossed $80 million domestically but “Requiem” is unlikely to stir that kind of interest.
Yet this new film, which opened as counter-programming on Christmas Day, sends the space creatures and their human victims through an antediluvian small-town-under-siege plot that was so nicely satirized this year in Robert Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror” portion of “Grindhouse.” The first “AVP” pairing in 2004 at least played the monster mash for camp humor. Predator: Requiem” to featured attractions in a dull actioner that looks like a bad video game. LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Alien and the Predator, monsters from a great science-fiction film and an above-average one, respectively, have been reduced in “Aliens vs.
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