A MAJOR IMPROVEMENT

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2001)

This movie rocks. It looks and feels more futuristic than the first 3 and for once the characters weren't boring, annoying or blank. The space pirates, the mad doctors, the marines and the new, very sexy and very seductive Ripley are very appealing.
The mad doctors wanted to bring Ripley back because of the Queen that was inside her. So she is cloned, but only the eighth copyÂ…works. All of the others crashed, like computers, and look way gross. She has partial memories of her past, has superhuman strength, has acid for blood (cool) and is connected to the creatures in a weird way.
The mad doctors want more hosts for the aliens so they can breed them and train them for Biological Warfare. The space pirates bring a cargo full of frozen prisoners to them for that reason and bring with them Call, an android, who takes a large interest in Ripley. It was inevitable that the aliens would break loose and when they do, all hell breaks loose.

This time round the Aliens seem cooler and smarter, unlike in Aliens when they were just there as a reason for gunfire, they can talk to each other and can figure out how doors and buttons work. Although they are mostly CGI, they still look scary and the swimming sequence in the flooded dinnerhall is cool to the max.
Many critics disliked the ending immensely, but I think that the beautiful sunset over earth infinitely better than the ending in Alien 3. The "Newborn" Alien is gross, creepy and way disturbing. I have no doubt that you will feel the same and the "death by suction" is sickening.

I hope that there is another Alien movie that is as cool as this one. But it seems that the odd numbered Alien movies are crap and the even good. Or am I just talking nonsense?