We learn more about the Predators than ever before, but it turns out the real reason they came to Earth is completely ridiculous, and the film’s approach to mental health (most of the characters are soldiers diagnosed with serious issues) is completely reductive and insulting. Shane Black, who co-starred in the original “Predator,” reunited with his “The Monster Squad” collaborator Fred Dekker for a film with a solid pedigree, an exciting cast and lousy ideas. So instead of appreciating all the nasty, gory special effects - there’s one kill at a hospital that’s easily the most disturbing image in the combined history of the franchises - we’re stuck listening to poorly developed characters and their forgettable subplots until they die in shadows so thick they may as well have been off-camera. Set immediately after the first “AVP,” this film about an Alien-Predator hybrid wreaking havoc in small-town America has a lot of gruesome monster effects, but you can’t make them out because the lighting is too dark. Predator: Requiem” is legitimately hard to see. Lots of poorly made movies are hard to watch, but “Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem” (2007) 20th Century Fox
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