Not Audience Friendly

Rating: 7/10 (21 July 2012)

It is not surprising that the fans of the first two films hate this one and the haters of the first two films love this one.
It is a dark, brooding, ugly, depressingly good film on its own. It has very little in common stylistically and thematically for that matter with either Alien or Aliens. Yes the Xenomorph is the monstrous villain, but here it is just a demon. It is the prison planet that orbits in Hell that is the focus of the story and we are the voyeuristic visitors.
When the devil arrives everything is destroyed and everyone has to honor their contract with the Prince of Darkness. Although Ripley will be resurrected since she was the sacrificial lamb.
This is not an audience friendly film, it is an exercise in Gothic Antichrist behaviorism and grotesques. A look at the dark side of a film franchise from a noir director.