Mission: Bring back the cash, logic and plot expendable

Rating: Null/10 (19 September 2010)

When Ripley sacrificed herself at the end of Aliens 3 it finished off Ripley's struggle against the Aliens with a noble and brave finale that shut the door on her story. Or so it should have been. I mean there's no way she could come back, right? Well as it turns out the dribblers responsible for this movie decided that she would come back and as Sigourney Weaver is co-producer you have to assume she went along with it happily enough.
Here then are my complaints about this atrocity of a movie;
The plot makes no sense: Boiled alive in lead? Well no problem, we erm got your DNA from the lead and remade you. And the thing inside you. A more plausible, though still admittedly hokey, explanation would be that they got a sample of her somehow from the EEV medical computer from the last film.
The plot makes even less sense: Maybe genes do have a sort of memory, that would explain a lot of things we don't understand yet. But what they probably can't do is remember conversations, one liners and events from people they were derived from. They do in this film though.
That crew: The 'pirates' look a heck of a lot like they wandered into the film from a rejected episode of Andromeda. They are completely out of place.
That general: He has orange skin, big bushy eyebrows and boggle eyes making him look like a muppet. He also has a muppet voice just to hammer home the connection.
The movie just isn't aliens in atmosphere or storyline. I hated it, the only good thing I can say is this - it's not Aliens vs Predator, a movie made by a marketing department, thus saving it from being the worst of the franchise.