At least they killed Newt

Rating: 1/10 (6 October 2014)

Unfortunately they killed Hicks and Bishop in the process.
This film is just, simply, a piece of crap. It has nothing going for it.
It fails as an Alien film. It fails as drama. It fails as action. It simply fails as a story.
And the biggest sin of all - it wrecks the Alien canon forever, and marks the down-turning point where it all sank into oblivion, never to recover.
With Riddley Scott's god-awful 'Prometheus', at least this particular abortion has been knocked back *out* of canon again (taking everything else post with it). But it's a Pyrrhic victory - Prometheus is only marginally more watchable than A-3.
There was a script, which I have read about half of, proposed by William Gibson, that would have made a fantastic film. He preserved Hicks (I can't remember whether he got rid of the snot child or not), gave Bishop a bigger role, gave Weyland Yutani a bigger role, and gave the Alien a few more bio-tricks to have up its sleeve.
But the producers were too busy snorting coke and slamming each others' genitalia in the door, while their paid sycophants told them how great they were.
All I can say is the pseudo-feminist crap-token that infected the 2nd film gets put down with a big splash at the start in this sequel.
But the whole story gets put down in the same splash.
Baby, meet bathwater, meet disastrous film nobody likes.
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