The End was the best part

Rating: 1/10 (20 April 2011)

In my opinion this movie was just released to make Fox some easy money. The trilogy was over but they had to "resurrect" it.
Although the director has several other great movies I believe he was the wrong candidate to helm an Alien film. Jean-Pierre Jeunet injects the film with his signature French humor, which is great but does not work for me in an Alien movie. I want to take my Alien movies seriously, I want to feel scared, care for the characters but this movie jokes around with everything, never gets you scared (just disgusted), and I couldn't care less for any of the cardboard characters. I would say they could have cut down on the characters but believe that David Fincher pulled off the suspense with the huge cast from the previous film so I will just label the new bunch as incompetent.
The best part in this movie is the final creature. I would always prefer Fox stuck with H.R. Giger, the artist who created the iconic alien in the first place, but think they did a good job by creating a memorable new addition with the "newborn." The animatronics, the facial expressions, characteristics, movements and sounds for this final creature are lifelike and believable. I only wished we'd seen more of it like having it stalk/hunt the crew throughout the movie for extra suspense.
I saw this in the cinema when it came out with my die-hard Alien fan friend and we both couldn't eat dinner after-wards; now I stumbled upon the DVD in 2011 and watched it again but couldn't help fast forwarding and all I can appreciate is the end as described above. From what I read here it is evident there were several disappointed viewers and I just hope the studios would take these things more seriously but I am losing hope with AvP and it's sequel (at least the video games are great).