Should never have been made

Rating: Null/10 (23 April 2003)

'Alien' was a work of art, not so much a horror flick more a suspense thriller that is still enjoyable to watch again and again. 'Aliens' is a rare thing, a sequel that is as good as the first, very imaginative, well filmed and also enjoyable to watch again and again. 'Alien 3' didn't quite cut it, for a start off most of it was filmed in total darkness and when you can see what's happening there are to many camera angles to make sense of what you are seeing. Whoever decided that a fourth film was called for was out of his or her mind, 'Alien Resurrection' is just nonsense. So it's hundreds of years after Ripley was incinerated and a group of scientists have cloned her along with the DNA of the alien embryo she was carrying and spliced it with her DNA to cross breed her with the aliens. What???? And we now have hybrid aliens that can swim, a queen alien that has a womb and one is part human, insane but part human. The script is so weak it couldn't fight it's way out of a paper bag, a lot of the acting is very wooden, even the incredibly talented Sigourney Weaver fails to give a half decent performance, as for the continuuity, there doesn't appear to be any. 'Alien' was made on a minimal budget and will be a science fiction classic for years to come. 'Alien Resurrection' is a multi million dollar lemon that is better off forgotten.