Mostly Tolerable except...

Rating: 6/10 (8 October 2006)

I'd say that this movie was alright. Not great, not terrible, just alright. I try to keep an unbiased opinion and will first do a little compare and contrast.
Alien: A suspenseful horror that has you enthralled through most of it.
Aliens: A bit more overt action oriented, but still enthralls you in the scenes where the marines are being sieged by the aliens and eventually manage to escape. (not to mention a few others).
Alien 3: A hashed together reason for a crash landing but otherwise well done character development and interaction. Dialogue was alright and was an 8 out of 10.
Alien 'R': Good setup, makes you scratch your head and brings you in. But once it has you it is fairly shallow. The dialogue is the bare minimum required to progress things along between actions scenes for the most part. (all in all this seemed like it was half-finished).
Now here go the big moments that just glared as ridiculous and that I couldn't ignore at all. I don't care what your excuse is... this just doesn't make sense. (these won't be chronological, just what comes to mind first).
Scene 1: Post underwater swimming they begin climbing the ladder shortly after losing Frank's main squeeze. Christie is carrying their crippled friend on his back when "Oh no!" the alien climbing the ladder grabs a hold of his foot. In an effort to take him down Johner lets out a barrage and finally kills the thing. Weakened from the swimming and the acid in his eyes, temporarily (or permanently?) blinding him Christie is weakly there being held on the ladder by his passenger. In an unfathomably stupid writing, Christie dies by valiantly sacrificing himself... The way that alien was dangling... all he had to do was shake his foot. Just a little jiggle and away it would go. But no, he drops himself down into the water into what should have been him shortly pulling himself back up... Last time I checked acid burns didn't kill you.
Scene 2: The simple fact that when cloned ripley somehow has a foreign creature inside of her... Last time I checked DNA doesn't contain a parasites details in it... It isn't like copy and pasting something, only the original organism gets copied over. Unless the fact that the face hugger's alter the hosts DNA when they impregnate them was omitted from the last three movies.
Scene 3: With seemingly no motivation besides, just because, the sociopathic Dr. Wren does his best to screw over the mercenaries. Even going so far as to betray them for no reason other than "Hey look! I'm evil!".
Scene 4: When the Origomo (sp?) crashes into the earth it seemingly was large enough and contained enough force when detonating to take out Africa as a whole. The majestic sunset scene of a peaceful sky greeting them when there'd already be atmospheric consequences occurring everywhere.
My final and biggest criticism. The whiny humanitarian android lives, the bad-ass "Ripley" lives (though that's expected), the crippled guy lives (though he's plucky and neat so expected), and the misogynistic asshole lives? Not the captain... or his girlfriend... or the almost meditative trick shot Christie? Hell I would've settle on The random security guy joining up with them over Winona Ryder's character.