I work at a movie theater, so I had the awesome pleasure of getting to dry run this movie (that's projection lingo for "watch movie early"). I just saw this, and let me tell you.....it's Bad-Ass, with a capital B and A, if you didn't notice. Let me explain why this sequel is roughly a jillion times better than the first movie...
Now, anyone who knows about this movie is already familiar with AvP 1. That was directed by Paul Anderson, a man who's been raping franchises for a while now. The movie was rated PG-13, which should already tell you how good it's gonna be (who rates an Alien/Predator movie PG-*******-13?). Turns out, the movie was complete garbage. It looked good, but it sucked for a few reasons: The Predators weren't BAMFs. Two got killed way early, and the last one standing just didn't take care of business like a bad-ass. He had to team up with a human in order to defeat the aliens. Come on now. Second, it was cheesy as hell (thanks to Paul Anderson). The human characters sucked, and overall, it lacked the feel of a Predator and Alien movie. Last....it was rated PG-13, and had little to no blood. It's Predator and Alien! How could it be PG-13? Long story short, it sucked.
Now, we have AvP: Requiem, and Anderson had ZERO to do with it, so that's an early indication it won't be a stinking pile of ass. It was directed by The Brothers Strauss, who directed a whole bunch of cool music videos. These two not only made a movie that looks amazing visually, but they made a movie that felt exactly like a Predator and Alien movie should feel like: Thrilling, bloody, gory, and absolutely HARDCORE. I'm not kidding. Just when you think this movie goes too far, it goes even further, and you're just sitting there, thinking, "Wow, that's bad-ass."
The one difference everyone will notice is that it's rated R, and for good reason. This movie pulls out no stops when it comes to savage and brutal, bad-ass violence. In the first ten minutes, a guy hunting in the forest with his 8 year old boy gets his arm melted off, and he and his son get impregnated by a couple of face-huggers. A few minutes later, they both come to, and guess what? Both their chests burst in bloody goodness. The movie sets the tone within the first ten minutes. I mean, my God, they kill an 8 year old kid in the first ten minutes. That's how you know this movie will be bad-ass and balls-to-the-wall violent.
Unlike the first one, this movie actually has interesting characters that you kind of enjoy watching and listening to. They have personality, and you actually don't really want most of them to die (even though it's beyond bad-ass when they are killed).
The story revolves around the Predator ship from part 1 crash landing on earth, with an alien/predator hybrid in it. They send a lone Predator to earth to "clean up" the mess, and let me tell you, this Predator is a complete bad-ass. If Chuck Norris had dreads, a helmet, and mandibles, he'd be this predator. No joke. This Predator goes around the small town, and hunts down the aliens, killing them off one by one in some amazingly bad-ass scenes. Caught right in the middle of this chaos are the humans, but unlike in AvP, this Predator shows no mercy towards anyone. He doesn't team up with a human, he doesn't cooperate, he goes in, cleans up, kills aliens, and if a human gets in his way, he eviscerates them. The stars of the show are obviously the Predator and Aliens, so whenever a human is on screen and they start fighting, naturally, you're just waiting for the Predator to come back and start killing. But either way, who cares. It's bad-ass.
The action scenes are thrilling, to say the least. Every single action scene in the movie has at least one "HOLY ****!" moment, and the movie is filled with scenes that make you just say, "That's just ****ing insane." For instance, SPOILERS HERE, in the movie, they kill an 8 year old kid, like 30 newborn babies in a hospital (although it's not shown on screen, you know what the hell happened), and an unborn baby while it's in it's mother's belly. I am not kidding. This movie doesn't take the easy way out with characters or events. Characters that you don't expect to live die, and what they do to prevent the alien threat from spreading outside the town is pretty surprising and crazy. This movie is ****ing hardcore and brutal.
The end fight with the Predator and Predalien is awesome. The fights with the Predator and Aliens are absolutely amazing, especially the hospital fight where he takes on like 5 of them. The end of this fight is nicely capped off with an unexpected "HOLY ****!!!" moment. You'll jump the **** out of your seat smiling when you see what happens to one of the human characters at the end of this fight.
If you hated the first one, you'll love this one. If you loved the first one, you'll love this one. It amps up the action, gore, blood, thrills, and just sheer bad-assness by a million. The Brothers Strauss did an amazing job with this movie, not only visually, but pretty much on every scale possible. When you watch this, you feel like you're watching the original Predator again. All it needed was an Arnold cameo, and it'd be set.
This comes out on Christmas. I'm sure Jesus will be happy to get a bad-ass present like this one.
Score: 10 out of 10. It's that awesome.
Now, anyone who knows about this movie is already familiar with AvP 1. That was directed by Paul Anderson, a man who's been raping franchises for a while now. The movie was rated PG-13, which should already tell you how good it's gonna be (who rates an Alien/Predator movie PG-*******-13?). Turns out, the movie was complete garbage. It looked good, but it sucked for a few reasons: The Predators weren't BAMFs. Two got killed way early, and the last one standing just didn't take care of business like a bad-ass. He had to team up with a human in order to defeat the aliens. Come on now. Second, it was cheesy as hell (thanks to Paul Anderson). The human characters sucked, and overall, it lacked the feel of a Predator and Alien movie. Last....it was rated PG-13, and had little to no blood. It's Predator and Alien! How could it be PG-13? Long story short, it sucked.
Now, we have AvP: Requiem, and Anderson had ZERO to do with it, so that's an early indication it won't be a stinking pile of ass. It was directed by The Brothers Strauss, who directed a whole bunch of cool music videos. These two not only made a movie that looks amazing visually, but they made a movie that felt exactly like a Predator and Alien movie should feel like: Thrilling, bloody, gory, and absolutely HARDCORE. I'm not kidding. Just when you think this movie goes too far, it goes even further, and you're just sitting there, thinking, "Wow, that's bad-ass."
The one difference everyone will notice is that it's rated R, and for good reason. This movie pulls out no stops when it comes to savage and brutal, bad-ass violence. In the first ten minutes, a guy hunting in the forest with his 8 year old boy gets his arm melted off, and he and his son get impregnated by a couple of face-huggers. A few minutes later, they both come to, and guess what? Both their chests burst in bloody goodness. The movie sets the tone within the first ten minutes. I mean, my God, they kill an 8 year old kid in the first ten minutes. That's how you know this movie will be bad-ass and balls-to-the-wall violent.
Unlike the first one, this movie actually has interesting characters that you kind of enjoy watching and listening to. They have personality, and you actually don't really want most of them to die (even though it's beyond bad-ass when they are killed).
The story revolves around the Predator ship from part 1 crash landing on earth, with an alien/predator hybrid in it. They send a lone Predator to earth to "clean up" the mess, and let me tell you, this Predator is a complete bad-ass. If Chuck Norris had dreads, a helmet, and mandibles, he'd be this predator. No joke. This Predator goes around the small town, and hunts down the aliens, killing them off one by one in some amazingly bad-ass scenes. Caught right in the middle of this chaos are the humans, but unlike in AvP, this Predator shows no mercy towards anyone. He doesn't team up with a human, he doesn't cooperate, he goes in, cleans up, kills aliens, and if a human gets in his way, he eviscerates them. The stars of the show are obviously the Predator and Aliens, so whenever a human is on screen and they start fighting, naturally, you're just waiting for the Predator to come back and start killing. But either way, who cares. It's bad-ass.
The action scenes are thrilling, to say the least. Every single action scene in the movie has at least one "HOLY ****!" moment, and the movie is filled with scenes that make you just say, "That's just ****ing insane." For instance, SPOILERS HERE, in the movie, they kill an 8 year old kid, like 30 newborn babies in a hospital (although it's not shown on screen, you know what the hell happened), and an unborn baby while it's in it's mother's belly. I am not kidding. This movie doesn't take the easy way out with characters or events. Characters that you don't expect to live die, and what they do to prevent the alien threat from spreading outside the town is pretty surprising and crazy. This movie is ****ing hardcore and brutal.
The end fight with the Predator and Predalien is awesome. The fights with the Predator and Aliens are absolutely amazing, especially the hospital fight where he takes on like 5 of them. The end of this fight is nicely capped off with an unexpected "HOLY ****!!!" moment. You'll jump the **** out of your seat smiling when you see what happens to one of the human characters at the end of this fight.
If you hated the first one, you'll love this one. If you loved the first one, you'll love this one. It amps up the action, gore, blood, thrills, and just sheer bad-assness by a million. The Brothers Strauss did an amazing job with this movie, not only visually, but pretty much on every scale possible. When you watch this, you feel like you're watching the original Predator again. All it needed was an Arnold cameo, and it'd be set.
This comes out on Christmas. I'm sure Jesus will be happy to get a bad-ass present like this one.
Score: 10 out of 10. It's that awesome.