I feel like, whenever there’s a movie that’s as heavily disliked as Alien 3, there inevitably comes a contingent of people 20 years on who try to argue that It’s Good, Actually.

But Alien Resurrection is not good. It’s a complete tonal mismatch for the franchise that’s filled with insufferably corny writing. Maybe if you took the Alien branding off it could work as its own sort of quirky sci-fi horror thing, but even then it’s just totally forgettable and by no means a good film.

It does have two great ideas for scenes, so I’ll give it credit for those. The scene with all the Ripley clones is legitimately unsettling and there are some really fucked up designs there. I think a version of this film that utilized those things as the antagonists instead of the Xenomorph would have been far more effective. The other good idea is the underwater scene. I don’t think the movie actually executes on this one that well, but the idea of putting the characters in a body of water with xenomorphs swimming around could potentially be some of the scariest shit ever.