well i like it

Rating: Null/10 (23 January 2001)

I liked this film, why, because its sifi, and well made sifi, i also like the other aliens films as each one is as individual as the other, and so if you had never seen any of the others and were in fact an alien your self to the films they're all well made, ripping yarns with great affects, but obviously nothing can top the first simply cuz it was the original, scary dark and tense, the second was all Americanised big boys with toys gun-ho come get some, action stuff that everyone loves, but that could have stood alone as a film of sifi action. the third and most criticised was a return to darker more broody atmosphere, whilst most younger people i feel wanted a starship trooper type film where we go do the aliens at home, going one further in action over the second, this took it in the complete opposite direction, i could go in to deep sub plot Sigmund Freud- isation of a woman in a max security prison with rapist and killers, equally as scary as being on a world of killer alians, or human ingenuity with no weapons but evil against evil, yet this if it was a stand alone film would have worked, but unfortunately it was compared to the original, which had the big advantage of being ORIGINAL, the forth again completely different style of filming with a totally new director in his un miss-able style, some say the sequels should have stopped long time back but the same people who bay for more sequels are the same to knock the films as not being as good as the first, and to my knowledge the only way to make any of these films as good as the first is to wipe their memories of the original. i think these films are great and would love them to go the way of James bond always the latest new effects and new directors wanting to have the honour of directing it, Not the way of Robo cop, Superman, Rocky or the halloween films, slowly sinking more and more in to the mud of knackers, nothing more than a fast buck making film than a work of love, genius and respect of the name 'Alien' so if your the type of person who will utter the quote:wasnt as good as the first" or "wasnt as good as the book" dont see this, obviously you take all this way too seriously, so i suggest you go do better and stop wingeing..:o)
TOM.