But because the plot’s all unfolding so quickly, it barely even registers. This should, in theory, be a monumental moment for the series, since it’s our first glimpse of the alien hunters’ world on the big screen. While the Pred-Alien and its retinue of facehuggers moves out into the Colorado countryside, the action shifts back to the Predator home planet. Remarkably, this isn’t even the worst bad-taste moment in the movie. As if this wasn’t traumatic enough, both father and son are subdued and impregnated by facehuggers. But this is a 2000s B-movie, so the child watches as his father’s arm is dowsed with acid and falls to the ground with a plop.
If this were a 1950s B-movie, none of the townsfolk would believe him. Now, most films would probably have the kid escape this encounter, and maybe run back to his hometown and tell everyone about the aliens in the woods. An army of facehuggers escapes from the craft’s shattered hull, and attacks the father and son from among the undergrowth. Don’t the Predators, with all their incredible technology, have some sort of airport scanner which can locate unborn alien foetuses as each Predator boards the ship? If the Predator ship was leaving Earth, why did it circle back on itself?Ī huntsman father and his wide-eyed son are about to gun down an equally wide-eyed deer when they spot the crashed Predator vessel. Now, you could pick all sorts of holes even at this early stage. The alien swiftly grows up, murders the remaining occupants, leaving the craft to tumble back to terra firma and crash into the town of Gunnison, Colorado. Aboard a spaceship leaving Earth, a chestburster emerges from the body of the Predator from the last film. Everything happens on fast-forwardĪliens Vs Predator: Requiem picks up immediately after the previous film, which might confuse people who either didn’t see 2004’s AVP, or were extremely drunk when they did see it three years before (which we weren’t – honest).
But while Requiem is widely regarded as a low point in the series, it’s not hard to find a few remarkable things tucked away in the film if you look hard enough. Of all the films in the Alien and Predator franchises, Requiem was the worst received by critics, and adjusted for inflation, it was also the least successful at the box-office.
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