When a Predator scout ship crash lands in a Colorado town. The Aliens on board escape and kill all the
Predators except one. The last remaining Predator must now destroy all the Aliens as well as the
horrific Pred-Alien that was spawned in the first AVP. Meanwhile the towns people are helplessly
caught in the middle of the ultimate face-off between these two mythic creatures. A sequel to the 2004 film AVP directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, "Alien vs Predator: Requiem" continues the Alien-Predator war.

For those of us hoping that AVP2 is better than AVP1, our prayers seem to have been answered. IGN has the new red band trailer for the spin-off sequel, and it looks pretty damn good. It begins with an appropriate tagline: "In space, no one can hear you scream. On Earth, it won't matter." Then, it's
pretty much everything we'd hoped the first Alien vs. Predator movie would be. Well, to be honest, we had wanted a human free, dialogue free movie featuring only the Aliens and the Predators, but this is
definitely our second choice.

It isn't even just that the sequel is Rated R, unlike its PG-13 predecessor, and that this uncensored
trailer gives us more gore and violence than the anything in the first movie. It's that the Strause
Brothers (sibling effects-wizards-turned-directors Colin and Greg) and screenwriter Shane Salerno seem
to have the right story for us fans of the original franchises. From the Alien series we have a
government/military that doesn't care about civilian life (this is also popular in other horror films of late).From the Predator series we have the thick brush of a forest (almost jungle-like) for more thermal-vision
stuff -- which just wasn't as interesting in the cold, arctic setting of the last effort.

Of course, the R-rated stuff is pretty sick, too. As is the seemingly Spielbergian touches: the flashlightsin the woods searching for an alien, but it isn't E.T.; a very Jurassic Park-esque scene with Alien young
substituted for Velociraptors. Hey, we know it won't possibly be as good as any Spielberg movie nor will it
likely be as excellent as the real instalments in either franchise. But it still looks awesome. We just hope
the trailer hasn't spoiled the best killings -- that Predator knife thrown at the blonde, the double head-shots,
the eyes poked out -- or the ending with that final shot with the F-bomb and the Alien kill, which looks
climactic. Anyway, one thing is clear: we should have a better movie than the first one.