I always thought they killed off the leader, Elgyn, too early. Without his character, the whole film post-alien escape just felt pretty directionless with too many character personalities going on and no central focus, because there was no one leader on the "human" side to be the central opposition to any calls Ripley made.
shareEach film has a character who you think is going to be a very important character and then they kill them off in the first half of the film. In Alien it was Dallas, in Aliens it was Apone, in Alien 3 it was Clemmons and Andrews and in Resurrection it was Perez and Elgyn
shareYep, but the thing that helped with the first two films is that there were a lot of other interesting characters to help carry the action.
In Aliens 4 there was just Ripley, and not many others worth caring about.
Oh believe me, I’m not saying that Alien Resurrection was effective in what it was doing
shareDefinitely agreed there.
Michael Wincott -- for what little time he had on the screen -- was far more interesting than the rest of the crew.
I would have preferred if he made it close to the end and then bit the dust, but taking him out early in and such an emasculating way was ridiculous.