Very good until the finish

Rating: Null/10 (17 November 2004)

As usual after watching this movie I'm a bit disappointed. I actually think it's very nice in its own right - stylish, dark, gritty. I like the mercs, the troops, the scientists. Not a single actor in there I don't like (well, except maybe for Winona). I even like the story and the small twists such as that Mother has become Father and apparently you can confess to the mainframe. But everything that's good about Alien Resurrection gets overridden by the stupid ending. Ripley's "gift" to the aliens actually takes away everything that makes the creatures such formidable killers, completely destroys the virus analogy and - and that's my main problem with something on the big screen - the resulting creature looks absolutely ridiculous. I always feel as if the screen writer was changed for the ending and that's imho the main problem with Alien 4 - different to its predecessors it is not of consistent design.