There is so little about this film that works at all - a specific moment here or there such as Ripley's encounter with the previous clones perhaps. Winona Ryder is completely miscast and most of the performances are so over the top, even actors you can usually rely on, such as Perlman, fail to inject any sort of interest or emotional connection. Most of the humour falls flat and there is certainly nothing here to scare, with the emphasis on body horror and gore. It doesn't help that the effects look dated and cheap, something that could never be said about the previous entries, even the third. The setup of Ripley's character is initially intriguing, but this version of Ripley is far too removed from the original, meaning the film is unable to rely on the emotional connection to the character from the previous films and the script here is far too weak to make the audience care about what is effectively a new character. Weaver does her best, but this is not Ripley at all - the filmmakers seem to have completely forgotten about what made the character so compelling in the first place, instead choosing to focus on her superhuman abilities that have been passed on to her. An entry that adds little to the series and, given the closure that the third one provides, is perhaps best avoided.