there be a time when the alien series be a success with even the third installment and alien 3 and show promise under the guild of a fresh and young david fincher . the first predator be a box office hit mainly due to it story and in peak star arnold schwarzenegger and director john mctiernan ( die hard ) . the films alien and alien and alien 3 and predator be all highly successful and create massive following among general film fan and science fiction fan alike . arguably predator 2 and alien resurrection should have signal the end for both franchise and but studio be undeterred and saw the opportunity to pander to the rumour among fan and combine the two . step in paul w. s anderson and alien v predator and and now the brother strauss ( visual effect graduate and not even director or writer ) . the problem be that by allow such profound and revolutionary creation of the sci fi genre to fall into the hand of firstly a mediocre director and now directorial newbie have lead to nothing more than profanity and epitomise by incompetence . upon witness alien v predator requiem ( avpr ) die hard fan will feel sick to their stomach that this series could have get any bad . one example of the cinematic deterioration of this franchise be in the opening scene and be likely to cause nausea among fan . the film begin with an alien make it way onto the predator ship and spurt from the predator chest and grow in to a full grown predalien and bring down the predator craft ( which now seem to have far less predator on it than it do at the end of alien v predator ) and all this occur with the ship still in earth atmosphere . once the ship have crash avpr quickly resort to cheap plot method and basic narrative convention and it make no venture at utilize any of the twist or subversion serve up in the two original film . the wearisome plot progress with tedious pace and punctuate only by the near rousing conflict of alien and predator and when that run the risk of bore u we be treat to either an allure blonde in a bikini or rapid gunfire . avpr be plague by an endless array of continuity error and plot hole with little or no narrative elucidation i. e. member of the public outwit an elite military unit or the predator not adhere to law establish in previous edition . this be a film that have a complete disregard for it predecessor and it break some of the most fundamental rule of a sequel and in do so one get the feeling that it be try to set itself up a a stand alone feature . independently the film have no heart and no conviction and no soul and with reference to the other film lack even the most basic continuity . this be exemplify by the over arch narrative of the film a it undermine the basic premise of the first alien . because if the specie have be encounter before then those in the first alien film would have be more proficient and not so ill prepared when encounter them . on a cinematic note the film be close to be dire and i felt urge at some point to shine a torch at the screen and the lighting be so bad . through utilize such gloomy and dark effect the audience may feel a though they be be cheat out of some the action which be ironically it purpose and also indicate the film lack of budget . a with all science fiction one scene normally surface a be the most memorable and in this instance it be probably the hospital impregnation scene a it ever so tenuously draw on the theme of the original alien by literalize it . the directing be poor and performance weak and the script rotten . avpr be the product of a conveyor belt system of film making in which idea and technique be assemble by ineffective people and then the finish product distribute among cinema . this be personify by the absence of gory death scene and draw out blood battle because the certification will not allow it a low certification achieve a large target audience . avpr be purely a business venture and nothing more .