Now, my personal gripe with Alien³ is that it just takes back everything that happened in Aliens with one big swoop. That mutually fulfilling surrogate mother-daughter relationship that drove the entire film forwards? Gone. The tentative almost-romance between two weary people that have been shafted by Wayland-Yutani seen the worst the Universe has to offer? Gone. The ongoing attempt by a rather suspicious and ambiguous "Artifical Person" to persuade a woman wronged by his kind to accept him, perhaps while pursuing his own nefarious agenda? Gone.

Instead, they just tried to make Alien again, except we didn't have as close a connection with the characters, particularly as we discover our heroine wasn't really in peril from the monster ...

I personally don't feel quite as hostile towards Resurrection as some other people. It would've been better if they just left the series alone, but, obviously, Fox wouldn't let the cash-cow lie. It had some cool ideas, (the slightly sympathetic Newborn, an almost Firefly-like smuggling vessel and it's characterful crew, a character obsessed with the Aliens to a creepy degree in an almost sexual way, which really harks back to Geiger and his "art") I felt these were lost in the stupid parts, plot holes and undeveloped ideas. Worst of all, it just lacked the tension of Alien or the characterful cast of Aliens.