"Hey, Ripley. I heard you, like, ran into these things before?"
Johner.
Script Logic; 0/2
Pace; 1/2
Acting; 1/2Aesthetic; 2/2
Originality & Intention; 1/2
Score; 5/10
Final Word; The first nail in the coffin of the alien
franchise. The few good moments of acting are horribly skewed by the duff performances, and
the story is a complete mess (a suprise considering Joss Whedon bought us the sharply written Buffy and Firefly series)- and made even weaker for having to shoe-horn in the
main character who was (spoiler) killed off during the climax of the previous film. Gone is the
gritty genre-breaking realism of its predecessors, replaced by the brash comic-book sensibility
of French dircetor Jeunet, and sinking in the process any chance of the film actually scaring. 'The trick, Potter', is to build on what has come before- don't shit all over it!
A horrible miss-fire, and the tipping point for a once great franchise; sure, Alien 3 could have been better, but a decent fourth offering could easily have recovered things. Instead, what do we have to show for the good times? The fucking brain-dead Aliens Vs Predator and the head-up-arse Promethius. Yes, I'm more than a little bit fucking bitter about this.
...And as if the film didn't have 'FAIL' stamped so boldly over it already, here's a little-known fact: with the release of Alien Ressurection, the Alien Trilogy became known as the Alien Saga, and later "Quadrilogy". Quadrilogy is not a real word. The word relating toa set of 4 is "Tetralogy".
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