Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem is literally shrouded in darkness, and the only explicable reason for this pitch-black visual schema is that the filmmakers understood it was better if no one could see the **** they were shooting.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 20, 2008

At best the movie's an unpretentious pile-up of B-movie clichés, but why "Requiem"? Time to give it a rest now.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2008

The world's most illogical and boring action-horror grudge-match between two dull trademarked franchise monsters is back on.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 18, 2008

A mindless distraction.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 18, 2008

Fans deserve better.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2008

Scriptwriter Shane Salerno's dialogue is unspeakable, the visceral horror all too familiar, and the ideas distinctly second-hand.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Jan 18, 2008

An early but strong contender for worst movie of 2008.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 18, 2008

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is a B movie that truly earns its B.

| Original Score: B | Jan 9, 2008

Indifference is the name of the game across the board, really.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 28, 2007

The door is left open for another sequel; if someone would kindly shut it and board it up, that would be much appreciated.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Dec 28, 2007

I can't say for sure what the 'Requiem' in the film's title refers to, though we can only hope it means it will be the last in the series.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 28, 2007

Occasionally, the filmmakers reveal a cheeky willingness to upend genre conventions, particularly when bending the rules regarding who lives and who dies in this sort of pic.

Full Review | Dec 28, 2007

It may not be classic sci-fi like the original Alien, which it has in its DNA, but it's a perfectly respectable next step in the series.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2007

The action is rendered with such disconcertingly low light levels -- and of course there is heavy rain for the climatic sequences -- that it can be a strain to simply see what is occurring on-screen. Then again, maybe that's for the best.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 28, 2007

So lacking in imagination is this movie that the Brothers Strause and writer Shane Salerno keep scrambling back to the original movie for inspiration.

Full Review | Dec 28, 2007

That the first of many rote 'chest-burster' shots occurs 15 seconds into the movie is but one indication of the latest instalment's poverty of fresh shocks and rank air of desperation.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 28, 2007

The problems with the movie are twofold and easy to spot: the acting stinks and you can't understand what's going on.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Dec 28, 2007

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is a bad movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 28, 2007