This is one alien that should have stayed dead

Rating: 2/10 (8 October 2007)

My eighth review for IMDb is for "Alien: Resurrection", a forth installment that was made despite the fact that the franchise WAS SUPPOSED TO END WITH THE THIRD ONE. Oh well, I'm just gonna get this over with.
The Positives: -Sigourney Weaver. Without her, this film wouldn't even deserve one star. -The CG looks good, with one glaring exception (I'll get to that later).
The Negatives: -The actors that aren't Sigourney Weaver. Winona Ryder seems lost, and she doesn't belong in this movie. Ron Perlman is a great character actor, but the character and dialogue that he's given robs him of any opportunities to stand out. And who were the other characters in this movie again? I can't remember any of their names. -There are a lot of glaring plot holes in this film. How did they clone Ripley in the first place? Couldn't the company have gotten an alien some other way? How does Ripley have the alien inside her still? How could it take 200 years to clone her? And I thought that the aliens didn't kill one another. What gives? Trust me, there's a lot more where this came from. -Characters keep falling victim to horror film clichés, even after "Scream" came out a year before this. How could a scientist smart enough to clone Ripley be stupid enough to look down the hole where the alien just went? -Random, stupid things happen in this movie. So that guy is a traitor? So Winona Ryder is dead now? So after a fight with the aliens, Winona Ryder is suddenly outside that door? So Winona Ryder is actually a robot? Huh?? -The alien/human hybrid child of Ripley is one of the worst visual effects creations I've ever seen. Not only does it look incredibly fake and silly, but the whole idea was stupid to begin with.
My 3 choice words: Garbage, Letdown, Winonastrophe