This film destroyed the saga...

Rating: 2/10 (25 March 2000)

I must admit I loved the Alien Trilogy, even the third one, but Alien Resurrection destroys the saga.
WARNING SPOILERS (read only if you've seen the film!)
I was very skeptical when I first heard that Ripley was bought back from the dead as a clone, but I still wanted to see this film badly at the cinemas. I saw it, and during the first few minutes I was semi-enjoying until the corny scene with the bullet bouncing off the walls.
Then things got bad to worse amongst some gory scenes which lacked the suspense and the fear elements of the first three. Winona Ryder made a completely lame android compared to Ian Holm and Lance Henrikson. All the characters had no depth, I mean how can an audience feel suspense for an android and a clone with some Alien DNA? The worst aspect of this film is the stupid motherly connection that Ripley had with the main alien who resembled a retarded puppy dog.
Besides the cool gore scenes, this film resembled some overblown action film rather than an action/suspense/thriller that James Cameron pulled off with Aliens.
The franchise would be hard to take seriously after this film. * out of *****