p e n g u i n d e v i l

Finally, an Alien vs Predator movie that is worth watching! I always thought that the original AvP graphic novel was boring and the AvP movie is easily on the the top 10 let-downs in filmic history list, it’s funny how the first AvP did twice the domestic box that this one did. Because Alien Vs Predator: Requiem is more like it. Sure, it’s not that great, as in it’s not as good as any of the first three Aliens or the first two Predator’s, but it is so much vastly better than AvP, I’ve got to give it props for that. A Predator ship carting around some Aliens gets, well, overtaken by the Aliens and crashes on earth, freeing a Preda-alien and a lot of little baby Aliens on an unsuspecting town. Obviously, the folks are mince-meat for the Aliens, but when the news gets back to Planet of the Predators, one of them makes his way to earth pronto to clean up the mess.

It’s got lots of face hugging, and great Predator effects, but then I’ve been a sucker  for Predator’s groovy technology and styles ever since the first one graced the screen some 20-odd years ago. Here, again, they’ve got bad ships and bad tools and a bad planet, plus there’s a big death toll, and I don’t feel like I’m giving much away to say that the final battle, between the Predator and the Preda-alien is a doozy. Yeah, the non-scifi elements of the movie aren’t that great, but they’re interesting enough. Our hero is the local pizza delivery guy who’s in love with some girl who’s seeing some jerky guy and that’s is what most of the story this takes place around, so of course, they come face to face with interstellar danger!

Anyway, I’ve been waiting for years for Aliens to descend on earth and start going crazy! And this movie is at least a start, though, sadly, the movie is too dark for most of the really choice screen captures.

Anyway, I shouldn’t stay on too long, as my DSL is still off (escalated to the “engineers”, at least) and I’v only got 20 hours of dial-up a month…