Mixed feelings about this film.

Rating: 5/10 (30 January 2012)

How can so many good people be involved in such a train wreck? This had a lot of good actors in it. Sigourney is back, they have Winona Ryder, Gary Dourdan, Brad Douriff, and even Ron Perleman is properly cast for a change. The writer is Josh Whedon, who would later go on to delight us with Firefly.
Side note. Notice how the crew of the Betty seems to be rough drafts of the Serenity Crew? You have the sweet girl with a secret, the tough guy who hurts people and the warrior babe. Throw in a preacher and a prostitute, and it would have been feeling like old times.
So anyway, through the magic of cloning an a co-producer credit for Sigourney, Ellen Ripley is back from the dead. Except this time, they kind of got the alien and human DNA mixed up. So Ripley has alien acid blood and the alien Queen has a womb.
I really think the problem is in the direction. You have this French director who managed to screw everything up, because he didn't realize he was directing an American film. The first time I realized something was wrong was when the Dan Hedaya character gets a crazy look on his face when they explain to him that the Ripley Clone might have memories.
There are a lot of other scenes in the film that just seem odd or out of place.
Whedon's script is actually pretty decent, if it was better directed and they didn't make some of the acting choices they made. The real problem, though, it the aliens themselves. There's nothing really new about them. they're doing the same thing they've been doing for the last three movies. Who cares anymore?