Taken by itself good, compared with the rest, Awful.

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2000)

I waited for this to come out on DVD before I saw it, thank Heavens for that. I'm so glad I didn't waste the money to see it in the theater. While the special effects were good and the plot plausible (questionably) I think that compared to the first two it didn't live up to the Alien saga.
(Spoiler) Everything that made Ripley what she was and why she fought so hard against the aliens was taken away. There was no motivation for her to fight them this time. In this installment, she's one of them, what's her motivation for fighting this time? I couldn't see any, or any reason for this film to be let out of the can. (End Spoiler).
Taken by it self it was an ok film to see. If you don't want to think about the movie, mindless entertainment. I typically like movies like that, but when it's a movie that's a part of a really good series (not including Alien3, of course) it just tends to ruin the series. I've heard that a fifth installment may be coming out, I hope it lives up to the story line that was set up in 1 and 2, otherwise this series has lost a fan.