The end of what was once a proud series

Rating: 6/10 (13 August 1999)

I really hope this is the end of this series. Alien was a good film with lots of atmosphere. Aliens was one of the best films ever made and it was one of the few films that I can say actually made me frightened and nervous. Alien 3 was stylistic but annoying and Alien 4 displays nothing that made the first two great. In the first and especially the second, Ripley was a scared but tough heroine that knew better than anyone what the Bitch was capable of. In the second film she says things like " I hope you're right because just one of things managed to wipe out my entire crew. " Now she is a cyborg and she has no fear and that takes away one of the most rudimentary things that made the first two scary. We could live vicariously through Ripley and her fear. But in this one, it is just a bunch of idiots running around that we don't care about. In Aliens we had Hudson ( is this going to be another bug hunt SIR? ) Hicks ( okay, we waste him, no offense ) Vasquez ( I just need to know one thing, where they are ) and even Apomb ( look into my eye! ). These characters added an element to the film that Alien 4 could never hope to copy. So what are we left with? I'm not sure, but it is not a good product, that is for sure. Even Winona Ryder can't do anything with the role that she was given. So the series has worn out it's welcome. It's time to put it to rest. I have heard that there is talk of a fifth, are these going to go the way of the Rocky's? I hope not because the first two were really superb films. I really hope they end it now. Please. This is not a good film and I can't see how the next could be any better, unless Cameron directed..... nah, that would be too good to be true.