killed the series dead

Rating: 2/10 (6 February 2006)

i've heard plenty of complaints about the exactly-what-i-expected "alien vs predator", but frankly, "alien resurrection" is one of the most unforgivable travesties in film history...
this movie is so bad that i'm going to make a generalisation (which i know is invalid, but still): french directors should not make big action blockbusters... see "the fifth element", "leon" and "brotherhood of the wolf" as exhibits A,B and C...
sigourney weaver is just terrible in this... shades of a bad linda hamilton impersonation... winona ryder is dire... the rest of the actors looked like bit players in a bad terry gilliam rip-off... the finale has to be the worst execution of a potentially interesting idea i've ever seen...
i'm going to give it a point or two just because it's good to see the phallic wonderbeast back on screen... this movie is frenetic, "zany", banal and lacklustre... it lacks any sense of pacing that the three earlier films exploited (in different ways) brilliantly... the visuals are very "green"... this is obviously the edgy colour of the day...
in fact "AR" managed to avoid just about everything that made the other films stand out in the crowded "space monster" flick genre... i suppose you have to give credit for trying to do something new... but the bawling, putrescent creature at the end was plain embarrassing... what a waste of money...
if you like slime and bullets, give this a go... otherwise, wait for it to be tacked onto an alien box set or to appear in a bargain bin sale...