Poorly written. See me after class.

Rating: 5/10 (10 January 2009)

I heard about this movie years ago but never got the chance to get the damn thing until I came across it in the corner of the local Video Store.
Now before putting the disc in my DVD player, I was hoping that it would be a good watch with some new Alien blasting action.
Unfortunately that isn't what I got. Not in the least.
What I got was unlikable characters, unused potential and almost no ****ing Aliens for the past 90 minutes. I decided to use the site features to my advantage and took a look to see who wrote this God awful story and to see that it was written by a Joss Whedon.
...wait didn't he make that popular series with vampires in it?
...
I'm probably think of someone else.
Now the directing by Pierre was good as always, acting was good as well. He did great, it's just the story that falls to bloody acid pieces. Aliens 3 was just passable in some story aspects making a good conclusion to a movie series with Ripley killing herself along with the Alien inside her in a pit of lava...however it seems that she was to likable of a character to die, so they brought her back through some weird excuse such as "cloning" her.
How original. But wait, Ripley's also an Alien/Human Hybrid now...yay? Well, it's kinda pointless since see never seems to use her abilities that often, only seeming to use her acid like blood twice and not much else...waste of potential. I was wanting her to have a fist fight with an Alien the whole damn movie considering she doesn't even carry a weapon the whole bloody movie.
Then we get introduced to some "space pirates" with of course half of them being unlikable so that we won't care as much once they die. Then the Aliens escape from their cells and all hell breaks loose. Now I know there should be only around 50 Aliens or so but really we don't see many Alien encounters in the movie. Then they had to leave the ship and destroy it since the ships on it's way to Earth...for some unexplained reason...
Just as the story was coming to an end I was thinking to myself, "Well, it wasn't that bad-". That was until "Newborn" showed up. The apparent 'son' of Ripley. Now the design for this character is absolutely stupid. Especially since it somehow gets into the ship before Ripley with it's stubby legs. The ending just makes me want to hit Joss on the head with news paper for trying to make us feel bad for a creature that's barely gotten 20 minutes of screen time, when it gets killed from a hole in the ship and sucked into space. Ending was awful, the story was awful, end of story.
To me this was just a sequel for the sake to make a cash in.