It stank!

Rating: 1/10 (5 September 2000)

I was so excited about the prospect of an alien film that was a return to quality following the awful Alien 3; all the reviews I had read indicated that it was the best of all the films and that another film was already in the pipeline as a result. Utter rubbish! This was the worst 'event picture' I have ever been duped into paying to see in a theatre. I had to struggle to stop myself standing up and shouting out 'B*****ks!' One patron was less restrained and shouted some abuse at the screen before his date gagged him in embarrassment. I feel genuinely sorry for many of those who worked on this film; they must have been so excited to be working on the new Alien film and yet their best efforts were simply not up to scratch. I could go on for pages citing the reasons why this film was so bad, but frankly, it's not worth even that effort. Suffice to mention the awful telegraphing of Ripley finding her mutant clones, and of course, *that* monster. I am reminded of the saying 'a camel is a horse designed by committee', but in the case of Alien:Resurrection, every sequence is a frenzied stampede of triple-humped mokes!