Movie & Entertainment Blog: ALIENS VS. PREDATOR

Synopsis in Bahasa :
Ketika sebuah pesawat Predator mendarat hancur di kota Colorado. Aliens di kapal itu lari kabur dan membunuh semua predator kecuali satu. Satu-satunya predator ini harus menghancurkam semua alien-alien yang hebat seperti yang pernah muncul di film pertamanya. Sementara penduduk kota yang tidak dapat melakukan apa-apa melihat pertarungan antara 2 mahluk mistik yang luar biasa. Perang pun berlanjut dari film pertamanya.

Synopsis in English :
Two Predators load several live Alien facehuggers and his dead comrade onto a ship, intending to return to the Predator homeworld. Unbeknown to him, the dead comrade was impregnated with an Alien before dying. The alien bursts from the corpse's chest, then quickly grows into a Predator-Alien hybrid (Tom Woodruff, Jr). The hybrid attacks the crew, killing them and forcing the ship to crash land in Gunnison, Colorado. Before one of the Predators is killed, he sends a distress call to the homeworld. His message is received by a Predator warrior (Ian Whyte) who immediately embarks on the journey to earth to rectify the situation. Meanwhile, the facehuggers escape from the crashed ship and impregnate a father and son hunting team (Kurt Max Runte and Liam James) and, later, two homeless men living in the sewer system. Read more...

Review in bahasa by Eric at Exodiac :
So, how about AVP 2 ? .... Simpy said, its garink abis ... tegang enggak, actionnya memorable enggak, ceritanya menarik juga enggak .... malah kebanyakan bumbu2 cerita ala sinetron imho ... cowok loser, jagoan yg baru dateng ke village tsb., ...... yah, boleh2 aja sih si filmmaker mo nambah unsur humanis di film ini .. tapi ya, penonton kan pasti nggak mengharapkan itu ... dari judulnya aja pasti yg diharapkan adalah kiprah sang predator dan para alien ...

Cuma satu fighting scene yg oke, saat si predator memainkan gadget2nya menhadapi serbuan alien di gorong2 ... tapi itupun kurang mantep ... sisanya? ga jelas fightingnya, fighting scenenya ikut2an pake gaya Batman Begins .. close-up shot dan kamera bergerak ngalor ngidul ampe ga kliatan siapa yg dipukul siapa yg mukul .. ditambah settingnya di tempat gelap dan sosok kedua monsternya hampir sama ..... padahal gue mo liat sosok si predalien .. hybrid antara predator & alien ... ternyata cuma gitu thok ...
.. Hollywood semakin lama semakin garink nih klo buat film ... klo dibanding film2 action jaman dulu payah deh ... padahal teknologi visual effect jaman sekarang dah jauhh di atas .... mungkin karena dimanja teknologi ini maka produser mengesampingkan sisi kekuatan cerita, mutu koreografi action scene dan penyutradaraan .....

Review by Ethan Alter at Film Journal :
It's a debate that has raged on playgrounds for decades: who could take whom in a fight, Batman versus Superman? The Hulk versus Thor? Strawberry Shortcake versus She-Ra, Princess of Power? Now some of the same kids who once argued over such schoolyard trivialities have grown up and run movie studios, which explains how we end up with pictures like Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, the second feature to pit the rasta-haired intergalactic bounty hunters that took on Arnold Schwarzenegger against the penis-headed space lizards that drove Sigourney Weaver to a fiery grave. You might be wondering why this particular grudge match requires two movies to resolve and the short answer is that it doesn't. But because the first film cleared $170 million worldwide, we're being treated to a second round anyway.

The good news is that Requiem is a leaner, more efficient picture than its excruciatingly dull predecessor, in which the title characters didn't even face off for the first time until the 60-minute mark. Incoming directors Colin and Greg Strause, making their feature debut after lengthy careers as F/X supervisors on such titles as Galaxy Quest and 300, understand that they are making a shlocky B-movie and, in fact, the film is modeled after drive-in staples like The Blob and It Came From Outer Space where the citizens of a small town are menaced by invading aliens in silly costumes. In this case, the small town is Crested Butte, Colorado, and the citizens are the usual stock types, including the clueless local sheriff (John Ortiz), the ex-con trying to go straight (Steven Pasquale), the dorky teenager (Johnny Lewis) and his much hotter love interest (Kristen Hager). In one of many tips of the hat to the Alien quadrilogy, there's also a Ripley-esque female soldier (Reiko Aylesworth) who spends most of the movie protecting her cute little girl (Ariel Gade). Read more...!

Review by Mark Dujsik :
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is not so much a movie as much as it is a series of blurs and shapes moving quickly across a screen. People might enjoy it more if it were run out of focus, because then they might be able to blame shoddy theater management for hiring an inept projectionist instead of realizing they just threw down too much money (anything over a dollar is too much in this case, by the way) to watch a movie by people who don't know how to make a movie.

There's not a specific element of this movie I especially hate; it's kind of a collective thing. The characters are less than cardboard cutouts, existing solely to be killed after spouting a line or two of clichés. The creatures, once genuinely scary (the aliens) or sort of cool (the predators), are reduced to screeching blurs or barely lit silhouettes that are not scary, cool, or, in a lot of cases, even visible. Speaking of bad lighting, the whole movie seems to have been lit by lighting bug behind a foggy window, and don't get me started on the editing, which makes it impossible not only to follow the action but also to realize that there is anything resembling action happening on screen. Read more...!

Screenshot :
ALIENS VS. PREDATOR - REQUIEM

Trailer :

Overview :
Directors: Colin Strause/Greg Strause
Writers : Shane Salerno/Dan O'Bannon ("Alien" characters) ...
Release Date: 3 January 2008 (Indonesia)
Genre: Action / Horror / Sci-Fi more
Cast :