The bleak, depressing, dull, demoralizing, and downright BAD sequel to ‘Aliens’ was directed by David Fincher, and shows why he got to direct stylish, nihilistic nonsense like ‘Fight Club’ but leaves me shocked that he was handed the reins for an actual great movie (‘Seven’).
Apparently the formula here is to eliminate the likeable characters from the previous film and then introduce no new ones, instead surrounding Ripley with thoroughly bland and one-dimensional you’ve-met-one-you’ve-met-em-all types, and you don’t really need to meet one.
It’s the feel-bad movie of the year!
Grade: F
5/30/12: The benefit of adding professionalism to an otherwise worthless movie. Grade: D-
4/25/16: Alien Cubed proves that sometimes more isn’t better. Grade: D-
6/3/16: Re: above comment, thank you RK.