Nice pick me up after Supernova.

Rating: 6/10 (20 February 2000)

This movie certainly isn't the holy grail I have seen some people make of it, but it is a solid, competent effort. The biggest thing I would change about it is replacing the female lead with Claudia Black instead, who I think would have made it more compelling, but what can I say, I'm a Farscape fan.
The movie definately is influenced by the Aliens canon, but doesn't reach that level of greatness. It does however, despite a small budget, feature solid acting, some originality, and a nice little theme of redemption.
One interesting note I read on here, and I would agree with it totally, is that I was never really 'scared'. Sure, I'm used to these types of movies, but the aliens did leave me with a pedestrian sense of deja-vu. The aliens seemed to be clones of the ones in Starship Troopers. Predictability is often the pitfall of these types of monster fests, and this one suffers its fair share of it.
I give it a 6, for a solid hour of sci-fi diversion. Think of it as a really good Sci-Fi Channel original movie (a rare beast), which in the end I think describes it's level of quality best.