Better than 3

Damn straight.

3 is a straightforward, brutal, nihilistic movie... That pissed off a lot of people by killing important characters from 2. Sure, we'd all have loved to see Ripley with Newt and Hicks, fight more aliens... as a family. But I am not convinced that the resulting movie would have been anything special except a repetition on top of a "happy ending". I think what we got is a helluva good ending for the Alien Trilogy. And the Elliot Goldenthal score is epic.

Alien Resurrection is a Frankenstein of a film, with a goofy return of Ripley, a band of throwaway space pirates, a little lost android and a weirdly pathetic final Alien form. Then they crash into Earth... Or that's what I recall. Apparently, Earth was a crappy place anyway. A bit of style and a few good moments like the guy bowling a grenade and the swimming aliens + a decent musical score barely make this movie watchable.