Partly good, with horribly bad ending.

Rating: 6/10 (26 February 1999)

What high hopes I had for this film, and how cruelly they were crushed. And it all happened so fast! The first two thirds of the movie are actually quite good. A bit slow-paced, but nevertheless worthy of the Alien concept. Of course, I had hoped for a plot that would have let us see more of the Alien universe; the planets, the military, etc...
Anyway, on to the ending, which I HATE. There is no other word for it. I hate the ending, because it violates the one thing that makes the Aliens movies so good - the Aliens themselves!!!
The disgusting offspring of the Queen looks like a giant malformed human baby - and yet is more powerful than the queen herself! The Aliens, as you will recall from the first movie, were touted as "perfect organisms", something the ugly baby critter is most definitely NOT. Blasphemy!
Beside this abomination, the whole ending sequence is filled with cheesy effects and logical gaps the size of Jupiter: PAH!