An Entertaining Movie With A Weak Connecting Plot

Rating: 6/10 (10 June 2012)

I am going to keep this brief, and I want to start off by saying that I am not a die-hard fan of the series. However, I have always thought of the first two aliens as one of the most innovating, fun series for it's genre.
This movie was, at the end of the day, a let down for me. You mean to tell me, Mr. Scott, that the aliens indirectly spawned from humans? The same alien that was supposed to be the perfect specimen that had acid for blood? I get some of the ways the alien ultimately popped out of about 3 or 4 different species intertwining their respective character traits, but such a perfect specimen as the alien was always presented to be felt that there should have been a sense of mystery and not a direct result of different species combining (including HUMANS). It was just a let down for me. I cannot believe that the alien that has had such a dramatic effect on cinematic history would not have spawned had it not been for human intervention. That is just a let down for me. I do not know what everyone else felt, but that plot detail upset me. I loved the movie otherwise, but whenever I go back and watch the originals, I am going to try and block out this movie's plot.