ALIEN VS. PREDATOR 2 Film Review - 20/1/08

Another film with a mouthful of gobbledygook for a title "AVPR: Aliens Vs. Predator - Requiem" when everyone else will just call it "Alien Vs. Predator 2". This sequel again follows immediately on from the ending of the last film within seconds of an Alien/Predator Hybrid being born. Crashing back to Earth the Predator Scout ship lands in some small sleepy backwoods town in the US letting escaping Alien breeders to latch onto the local populace. A totally pastiche Predator with no honour is dispatched to clear up the mess. In the ensuing chaos everyone gets killed in the standoff between the Aliens and the Predator hunter as they massacre each other and everyone else in the crossfire. Starting off well this film falters slightly after the beginning and then picks up speed towards the end; as the townsfolk have absolutely no idea what's going on and neither do the National Guard when they turn up, as the Alien infection spreads and it's all-out war and destruction. Politics then rears it's head in the eventual solution to the problem and the machinations of the Yutani Company are now realised for the first time.

Slagged off several times over I actually enjoyed this film and whilst no comparison to the original (Which had a much better setting and story) this was still hugely entertaining fun. In a disturbing way if you look at the child and pregnancy scenes you can see how much things have changed morally in the state of current cinema. A few years back neither of these scenes would have been shot. The ending is pure textbook - But don't be surprised to see another sequel one way or the other?