Part of the ever worse decline of the Alien franchise

Rating: 3/10 (19 September 2007)

This movie is further proof that the Alien series should have been left to rest. Instead of growing, becoming more gripping and keeping the same intense, dark and bewildering monsters that made man look so inferior as a species and so alone in space the Xenomorph's powers wavered sporadically from immortal to easily killed by an obnoxious and poorly cast group of space bums, the idea of the ant-like hive and all the subtle connotations involving gender and Darwinism were lost making them nothing more than boogie-men. The fact that the movie was toned down so much in terms of violence and gore, a classic Fox tactic for shooting themselves in the foot, renders even that rather pointless.
The cloning idea was not only a stretch but utterly ridiculous even for the nonsense-tolerant genre of science fiction and all the menace of the alien hoards is lost, not to mention anything special about them by the time they have adapted to human DNA. This movie will go down in history as the slayer of any hope of a return to form for the Alien franchise and a stain on the career of the creative genius that is Joss Whedon.