A film so poor you couldn't auction it at a charity event.

Rating: 1/10 (29 March 2006)

Ahh, where to begin. Firstly the characters aren't even one dimensional, and don't warrant any emotional investment, so I just don't care what happens to them, they appear to be created by a focus group consisting of people of the most limited intellect, say oh, a Lima bean. One of the things that made Alien & Aliens so good is that the characters are not all attractive 20 something's who moisturise, they have personalities, express opinions, disagree, break wind, we care about them, Paxton (Hudson in Aliens for the uninitiated), may god bless you.
Making the film a PG13(15 UK) makes a mockery of the entire Alien "birth", it inherently requires a higher rating. As does any film where intergalactic space aliens try to kill one another and humans get in the way. There is no suspense what so ever, the direction is weak, the actors have nothing interesting to do, I can't remember the script but judging by the quotes on IMDb it is very "special", the story is at best a doodle on a beer mat, the structure and pacing are bad, not ALL the blame can be levelled at fox.
The film missed the point on so many levels, aimed at 13 year olds who have no connection with the originals, and alienates those who may have cared about two of cinemas greatest creature creations in three previously excellent films (Alien, Aliens and Predator, no, and no again Alien 3, any film that treats its predecessor with so little respect deserves no respect itself, although it becomes a master piece in comparison and finally the awful Alien Resurrection Joss Wheedon and Jean-Pierre Jeunet what were you thinking?)
If Ridley Scott and James Cameron were dead their graves would have to be cleared for take off as their coffins span out of the ground into the stratosphere (Goodness only knows what Giger makes of it all, should he have had the displeasure of loosing 101 minutes of his life watching this).
It wastes great concepts (A CGI Alien Queen! Models maybe expensive and old fashioned but can be sooo much more effective, in any case the queen scene was uninspired) and creates whole new stupid ones, an Alien Predator half breed!!!?
In conclusion your Honour, this mess is a wasted opportunity with little to recommend it, although it does have the same fascination involved in watching a slow boring car crash.