Starts out great, then mellows

Rating: 5/10 (16 May 2000)

It starts out really great, and the first part of the film is VERY nice. The light in this film is just superb, irritating and stinging, and you can really feel the heat and the thirst. Well done, considering it's all done with light.
But the second half feels much like a distant echo of the Alien Trilogy (I won't dignify the god-awful Alien Resurrection as a fourth in a series), far from being as innovative and chilling as those great films. And there are some lines in this film that don't rate much higher than they would in a Seagal-flick...