Very Good

Rating: 8/10 (17 August 2004)

I really really enjoyed this movie. Compared to the other Alien and Predator movies, my personal ranking probably places it second only to the original Alien.
I especially like the way that the queen in this prequel to the Alien series, supposedly dead and lost in Antarctic waters, may escape hundreds of years from now when her fetters finally erode, and become a loose queen on Earth, and an Alien sequel. (She's already survived thousands of years frozen and thawed repeatedly. And her skin is impervious to her own acid, so saltwater should be a piece of cake.)
And I like how the fact that aliens have already been on Earth explains how the Company seemed to know so much about the aliens from the very beginning - Weyland Industries had records of the fight in this movie, and the burned remains of alien carcasses, but were unable to recover the queen lost at sea.