I liked the film

Rating: Null/10 (6 April 2008)

I liked this film. Although I prefer 1 & 3. Many people praise Aliens as the best one,but, for my taste, it's a little bit to much of a Rambo movie, with not to convincing gun-action. I liked the development of Ripley's character though, her growing up and becoming stronger, fearlessly overcoming the fact that she has been lost in space for so many years and that her daughter had died of old age by the time she returned to Earth.I liked immensely her very strong maternal instinct, leading her back to the alien's nest to rescue the little girl Newt and her battle with the mother-queen.Ripley has always been the central point of the Alien saga-and of course her antagonists,aliens, on the other side. I liked the idea of cloning the defunct Ripley very much. When I saw her die in that furnace, with the queen bursting from her chest, I felt that it was just a perfect ending for an outstanding trilogy. But, they have cloned Dolly, why not Ripley? When you think about it, it makes perfect sense-the Company has always been prepared to do anything, just to get this perfect biological weapon. The fact that they have obtained an improved version of Ripley, without planning it, after 7 other failed attempts, just mirrors all the justified fears of playing gods of creation with genetics. And, what is the detail I liked even more, is that they have even improved the Queen-she has also a certain amount of Ripley's DNA, as she has developed a womb and the ability to give birth...no need for cocoons, eggs, all the slimy stuff any more...the Queen gives birth to a Newborn, which seems even worse than the original alien, because of his similarity to humans. It is similar to us even in the fact that he ultimately kills his mother, denies his origins, just like we are denying our animal origin, and clings to Ripley, his other, human-partly alien mother. She has some attraction to her other nature, but, in the end, we all know whom she chooses-the human inside of her. She has been always wondering which species is the worse, the Xenomorphes or the Humans; this franchise has been a very nice exploration of this idea...