Feeble, disjointed

Rating: 2/10 (14 September 1999)

There is one scene in this movie that ultimately made me hate it. It's where Charles Dance's character gets killed. I must say that up to that moment I was getting by on the great cinematography, and actually getting into the whole sombre mood.
We had gotten to know Charles's doctor as a guilt-ridden man with blood on his hands who is trying to redeem himself. He was presented as a soul-mate of sorts for Ripley. Hey, they even made love in a rather tender scene.
Then out of nowhere drops an alien which in a wink of an eye simply kills him. I mean, if he's going to be killed so off-handedly, WHY BOTHER giving him so much time to built up a relationship? And the warm atmosphere just ripped away like a bad joke. ARRGHH.