Requiem for a Franchise?

Requiem for a franchise? Probably not, seeing as how the ending of AVP-REQUIEM was set-up for another sequel (which is already in talks at 20th Century Fox). The best thing I can say about REQUIEM is that it's not quite as boring as the first one. There was at least a little more action in this sequel; but the movie was so darkly photographed that you couldn't really make out what was going on during the action sequences. There's hardly any character development either, so you don't care much about what happens to them. I don't usually mind this in a horror film, but if you're not going to have any real plot construction or character development then at least bring on the carnage and bloodshed. While it's true this movie has a little more gore than the first one, it's not nearly enough (considering the DVD is unrated). And most of the gore FX that are in the movie are ruined by the lighting (or lack of lighting). I'm a big fan of the Alien franchise and the Predator franchise, but so far I've been disappointed with both attempts at combining the two on film. For a much better combination of the franchises check out the Aliens vs. Predator series by Dark Horse Comics.

2/10