Description
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
I've never understood the haight for the film, but now that I've reviewed it, I think I've realized what it's based on. This movie finally turns the franchise into a Sci-Fi action movie, instead of a space horror. And not even as it was in Cameron's Strangers, but at the level of superheroics of recent years. The closest example of such a mainstream sequel is Terminator Genesis. It seems like everything is for fans, but at the same time a completely entertaining popcorn movie.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed watching it.
Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder are nice to look at, Ron Perlman is also pleased. Crippled mercenary Vriss and soldier Vincent Di Stefano aka Tuco Salamanca from Breaking Bad (only now noticed during the revision) are also more or less charismatic characters. I liked the practical effects and cgi, especially everything that concerns Strangers. Against the background of how the xenomorph was depicted in Alien 3, it's just heaven and earth.
The soundtrack is good enough. It's amazing how the authors were still able to somehow connect the previous three completely disparate films of the franchise and the events of them are quite taken into account. At least from parts 2 and 3. Of course, there are many more questions than answers, especially everything about the new Ripley. But nevertheless.
As an entertaining movie for me, 4/5 is like a weaker movie from the franchise, but I think it's not the worst and hardly deserves all the haight that is poured on it.