TI's good, but will never be the other films AND deserves less criticism than it receives

Rating: 7/10 (8 June 2005)

this is enjoyable, i like it. it disregards bits of the other films, it has paper thin characters, so this should be (overall) a bad film, but its not its quite good. the story keeps it going and the action and special effects are quite good. overall i like this film, AND i am a massive alien fan, one of these people that see's alien as a mecca! i had heard a lot of bad things and expected a lot of bad things, but wasn't actually disappointed, the first time i saw it i brought the two disc special edition DVD and watched the extended edition, that being the version i saw first is officially my favourite and the better of the two, it fills in gaps that really need to be filled, and there's more cool effects and stuff