Why are we discussing this movie?

Rating: 3/10 (28 August 2014)

I was and always will be a big fan of the Alien series. Alien is a very sensitive movie, introducing a then maybe unheard range of terror. Aliens for me was a climax as the claustrophobic situation amounts to a "best nightmare ever" scenario and the pace and idea of the original movie is very well followed. Dark, rather slow, characters mostly carefully chosen, presented and evolved. Aliens 3 was somewhat of a necessity to close the thought, to kill the beast, to end it for the viewer and Ripley. Even though a little less fascinating it was still colour- , sound-wise as well as felling-wise in the range and did do the job. And now this. I understand the interest to continue a winning story, but it has to be done in a decent way that does not damage an excellent series. Alien: Resurrection would do exactly this, if you counted it. But it should not. The biggest surprise is the introduction how Ripley and the alien inside can live as she was burned in Alien 3. It is the most uninventive explanation, cloning. Well, cloning from blood samples might once become possible, but the alien queen in her chest is actually depicted in her genetic information? Really? So this starts a reign of horror concerning ideas how to make a movie that does not really need to be made. The characters are flat, simple, the dialogues are atrocious most of the time. The pace of the movie is so much quicker and uneven that you feel put into an splatter action B movie. Yes the pictures are nicely done in some scenes, but this does not help a lot, as dumb and uninteresting people are getting killed and you really don't give a damn about it. If there was not Sigourney Weaver, who sometimes herself seems disgusted by the sentences she has to speak, the movie would deserve less than my 3 stars. She holds up her acting in what could be a very interesting character, changed from the first 3 movies. But this potential subsides in very little genius of developing something. On the whole, if you like the series, it might not be a good idea to watch it, you might be disappointed.