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A truly horrible movie on all accounts, Requiem could quite easily fool people into thinking that the first AVP was actually quite decent.

Continuing immediately after the first film, the "Predalien" crash-lands its ship on Earth and goes on the hunt for human and Xenomorph blood. And that's it, as far as plot goes.

AVP2 is basically a crappy teenage horror flick with some aliens and predators thrown into the mix. Gone is the PG rating of the previous movie; this time, we see a young boy being facially raped by a parasitoid and, later on, a pregnant woman's belly expanding after she is injected with alien triplets. That's not exhilarating; rather, it's bloody disgusting (and this is coming from a man who adores violence).

With characters so annoying that we really couldn't give two shits about their fate -- one is actually called "Dallas", in a pathetic attempt to echo the credibility of the very first Alien film -- and lighting so dark that it's insanely difficult to figure out what the hell is going on, AVP2 ends up being an incredibly annoying and utterly pointless addition to the film database.

For God's sake, don't make another one.

(C) Andy Carrington, 2009.