All 7 Predator movies ranked from worst to best

7. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem could have worked. Heck, it should have worked. It really should have worked. The 2007 movie took one of AVP‘s most exciting reveals and created an unnerving new threat in the form of the Predalien. Unfortunately, it just wasn’t able to give that reveal a worthy story.

The movie completely missed the mark for multiple reasons. One of the biggest criticisms of its predecessor was that it wasn’t rated R (in spite of being based on two notoriously R-rated franchises), but AVP: Requiem took it too far in the other direction. It was gratuitous in its violence, unnecessarily brutal with its characters when it didn’t need to be and just an all-around joyless movie. It’s also way too dark and that makes it harder to actually see what’s going on from time-to-time.

There are some positives. The Predalien is quite the sight to behold and it does make for a worthy antagonist, while the Wolf Predator is another interesting iteration of the hunter, but the movie just failed to live up to its intriguing concept. It felt less big-budget franchise entry and more B-movie spinoff, ending the Alien vs Predator dream on a dull and disappointing note.