Good for die hard Ripley fans only.

Rating: 5/10 (21 May 1999)

As someone who jumps everytime an Alien appears on the screen, this film has all the right elements and passed the time pretty quickly. However for those who didn't appreciate the first Alien film, it certainly won't win them over. It looks like a pension fund raiser for Sigourny - with that nice open ending and all that. Let's forget plot credibility (the writers certainly did - when did Ripley find time to run up that leather gear on her sewing machine?), the science ( General -"she knows about it", Doctor - "it must be some sort of inherited race memory combined with highly refined instincts" - duh?) and concentrate purely on the Alien myth. Here we see plenty for our "alternative" Alien fans - lots of smouldering looks from the new improved Ripley towards Wynona, I thought (could have been maternal - I just don't know). Plenty for our feminist Alien friends - the men were as usual completely useless when they weren't being downright devious. And plenty for our Alien etymology freaks - we can probably build one in our backyard we've seen so much of their insides and outsides. I predict an Alien 5, an Alien 6, and so on until the super lean Ms Weaver runs to fat. And more power to her, I say - 48 years old in this film and still looks good in leather!