Not as bad as I thought it would be.

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2005)

Thankfully I read all of the bad comments on here before seeing it and expected the worst. I was happy to see the movie was better than I thought it would be. It suffered from the same thing as Alien 3 and that was character development. Too many characters that you felt very little for. I saw a chance for some cool characters... mainly that girl who has the pistol and talked to Lex about condoms in the beginning. It suffered a bit like Alien 4 in that it killed off its characters, and usually the good ones, too soon.
My view of the Alien films is such. Alien is still hands down the best of the series. Anyone who says ALIENS was the best doesn't understand good movie making... they just like action. Nothing wrong with that mind you, but for pure cinematography, character development, plot, and suspense... ALIEN is the best. Then I like ALIEN 3. Yes, I said ALIEN 3. I, like most Europeans, liked the darkness of it and the changing character of Ripley. I work night shift by myself and listen to cassette tapes of the movies, just the sound mind you, and I really enjoy the dialogue of 3. Then I like ALIENS for the action. Then AVP. Then ALIEN 4. ALIEN 4 was the most depressing. It had everything going for it! Great actors! ...and I mean great! ...well except for Whine ona Ryder. Great sets and dark story. Then it gets stupid and kills the best guys first!!! Oh if they just could have kept the black guy and killed the guy in the wheel chair, then I would have liked it more. ...and that STUPID alien!!! Oh don't let me go there. Then the final scene where the ship crashes into America and looks to take most of it out we hear Call say, "You saved the world.." Yeah! Right! So don't be too harsh on AVP. The only two things I hated were the two predators dying SO QUICKLY and at the end the predators NOT SEEING the alien in their fallen comrade...although he could see it in the human. Since the Predator was dead and emitting no heat it would have been easy to see the alien. Oh well... nothing can be as perfect as JAWS was.