In space, a hybrid has been born, on a ship it will grow and on Earth it will escape. Now a lone warrior from another world may be Earth's last chance at survival, but will the unlikely hero be able to stop the spreading invasion himself? Or will more drastic measures have to be taken in order to save mankind? Lock and load because once again it's time for the hunt in Alien vs Predator II: Requiem.

AVPR is better than the first film and it does a lot of things right for both of the alien species involved, however it also does a lot of things wrong. Thankfully those are more involved with the human side of the film. Anyway check your ammo and adjust your night goggles, because you're going to need them both for this review and film, so let's let the review begin.

Right off the bat here is AVP:R’s biggest problem, IT IS TOO DAMN DARK! Not in content mind you but in lighting. Every fight sequence is shot too dark, I don't know if it was done to say on the effects budget or what, but it just plain sucks. Most of the time the only way you can even tell who is kicking who's ass is by the noise that is being made. If it clicks or has a deep growl, it's a Predator, if it has a high pitch scream or wet and slick sound it's an Alien, I think. If it wasn't for the views through army-issue night goggles or the Predators HUD, I couldn't even tell you if it was an Alien or Predator movie, it could have just have been two monsters kicking the shit out of one another in the dark for all I know.

The Strause brothers who directed AVP:R really need to know that people like seeing what's going on, on the screen, especially when they pay ten bucks to see the two main creatures beat the hell out of one another. The darkness of this flick really takes away from the overall quality of the film in a huge way, to a point where the viewer may feel blatantly ripped off.

For the rest of the BAD, let's chalk it all up to horrible coincidence shall we? Or horrible story writing. At exactly the same time the Predator ship crashes on Earth in the Colorado woods, a father and son are hunting. Ok, I can buy this one after all you need victims for the aliens to lay eggs. But then on the same day, a mother comes home to her family after serving two tours in the army, she is hard edged, grizzled and has all kinds of goodies in her knap sack, hmmmm I wonder if all that will play into the film. Also we have the return of a character named Dallas, I'm guessing as homage to Tom Skerrit in Alien, who has been in prison for a bit. He now has his life on the right path and even though he is hard and grizzled he's back in town to help out his little brother. Hmmmm, wonder if that works into the storyline? Now from these two characters you spin off into meeting the people in their lives along with many more like the town sheriff, high school kids, bums, deputies and local towns folk all of which is just wasted time, even if you do meet all of these fine characters in the first twenty minutes, it just sucks, end of story.

OK we have bad characters and bad lighting, what else could be so bad? The plot has problems but it's decent enough, it's the dialog that will kill you. Cheesy lines like these beauties "We need guns." "Where are the guns?" "Something is out there." "Can you drive this assault vehicle?" and many many more are sprinkled throughout the film and come up at really terrible points of time during the movie and mostly they got laughs... mostly (HA take that Newt!). You expect cheesy bravado lines in this type of movie, but these ones just don't make any sense.

So if the darkness is strike one, the human characters have to be strike two, then the dialog would have to be strike three and put AVP: Requiem out right? Well not quite so let's call the dialog a good hard bean ball and move to what's good about the film.

The Aliens, they look good and they are more vicious than ever. Head bites, chest busting and face hugging abounds in this one, I think it happens a little too quick, but it's good, real good. To prove the Aliens are really evil there is even a scene in a maternity ward that really let's you know how evil they are, it was actually kind of chilling. But the Aliens are just doing their thing and they are doing it well, there is great respect paid to the acid blooded ones.

The Predator, this time around we only get one Predator, but don't fret he is a bad ass mother fucker! I know this because at one point they show him reach for his wallet and it says BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER on it!

Well, not really, but if he had a wallet it would say that on it. Not since the original Predator, has a Predator been so sweet. He even has a few new gadgets like a whip, tracking devices and double shoulder cannons, but he still carries the classic gear like hand blades, spears and throwing discs. Also the idea of having one Predator made a lot more sense than having five. This Predator is like a cleaner, he's called in to clean up the mess before it gets out of hand. He's big, he's bad and the mother has mad skills!

And finally we have the Pred-alien hybrid, it wasn't great, but it worked. Take the basic alien body, put it on steroids add the Predator mouth and some slimy dreads and you have your hybrid, but add to it the fact that it can shove eggs down your throat and spit acid and you have a pretty nasty beastie on your hands, if only I could have seen it better I may have liked it more.

AVP: Requiem isn't that bad of a flick, but unfortunately the lighting of the film during key events almost completely ruin the film, I could deal with bad lines and characters, but not being able to see what was going on, is unforgivable and it really hurts the overall review of this film. If you're a fan of the Aliens or Predator then this one will have it's moments for you and if you liked Aliens Versus Predator then I think you will enjoy this one a little more, if only you can see it.

5 of 10, due to horrible lighting.
6 of 10 overall.