Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)

 "That's crazy. The government doesn't lie to people!"

This is a terrible film. It stinks. And let me be quite clear about this: this is not one of those B movies that aren't very good but we can have a good laugh about, enjoying the silliness. No; this is unwatchable.

It's actually fascinating how on Earth a film this bad can be made. The plot is confusing and, indeed, confused; the visual storytelling fails along with the script. We don't care about the characters. Actors like Sam Trammell, so good in True Blood, are perfectly decent in other stuff but pants here. The whole thing is incoherent. Even the lighting is rubbish; unclear, and contributing to the fundamental failure to tell the story here. We just aren't told, diegetically, what on Earth is going on. I needed to look at a synopsis to learn that the plot is based around a "Predalien", a Predator-Xenomorph hybrid, being hunted by a Predator with the humans as collateral damage.

The concept for the film is even pretty decent, with all this happening to one small Colorado town. This could, with competent direction and script, have been a decent film. Sadly, we get neither. This is shockingly bad. It's a film about an Alien-Predator hybrid on the loose... and it's boring.