Taking up where the previous episode ended, the film has an Alien-Predator hybrid being (Tom Woodruff) slaughter the crew of a Predator ship and return to Earth with the new-found ability to directly impregnate humans with alien eggs – which it exercises on a father and son bonding on a hunting trip in the vicinity of Gunnison, Colorado. Even as schlock, this is thuddingly ordinary – though it is a marginal improvement on AVP, thanks to a few tiny character licks in Shane Salerno’s by-the-numbers screenplay (this batch may be two-dimensional, but that’s one dimension more than the AVP victims) and one interesting production decision (setting most of the film during a horrendous, Aliens-inspired downpour that makes the alien battles even more difficult to survive). The saddest thing about it is that Colin and Greg Strause, the whiz-kids who get to direct, are the sort of people who have no ambitions beyond making theatrically-relased fan fiction. Anderson film based on some comic books and video games rather than an actual extension of either the Alien or Predator franchises. The most generous way to look at the clumsily-titled AVPR is as a sequel to a clod-hopping Paul W.S. My notes on AVPR Aliens vs Predator Requiem (2007)
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