This film could not be shot at all: a negligible budget (this is despite the fact that the first part was shot at a good 35 million in its time), low interest of the viewer to the franchise, low ratings, the departure of the main star, and besides, in past films, the whole concept has already played out and in general merged. We know that the Individuals screwed up with the expansion to Earth, turned out to be quite weak, because they suffer from their version of “World War Syndrome”, there are several of them left, but they have integrated into society and are slowly dying out. How and what could the fourth part be filmed here? And that's where I want to pay my respects to the authors, because they found out what, how, with whom, and they were able to make this film, and within the limits of what they could do.
- Miranda does not control herself in an alien form and attacks people in vain. But this does not coincide with the behavior of past aliens, who in all guises retained a more or less holistic line of behavior. Thus, Miranda was simply excused by the authors: we need a monster, and a positive heroine is needed, well, let her have a split.
- Heroes go looking for a man in Mexico, and they don't have a single tip. But Mexico is actually big. They ask passers-by, showing a photo. Tell me, would you find it that way? And they do, thanks to a series of accidents.
- Why would you give the hero a taxi driver to try to kill him if you could just not give a tip?
- When it is necessary to sacrifice a person, the authors again whitewash the actions of the hero: the victim herself was a bandit, and in general it was not he, but Azura took over everything. Look, if you didn't want to work with the concept of slaughtering a random person, you just wouldn't make it a necessity, that's all.
- Azure tried to create some kind of story arc, but nothing happened. She can behave normally and can be a bloodthirsty monster, but what this depends on is unclear. She attacks the hero twice. What do you want? Well, in the end, she can avenge Miranda for the death of the creator, but before that, her actions are completely incomprehensible. It could have been a more interesting character, but it wasn't written.
I consider the film weak, but not bad. I like that the authors worked with the concept, and with very small budgets, tried to do something interesting and unexpected. For comparison, Terminator has 6 films, and 5 of them have the same script, being structural remakes of each other, and here all the parts are different, the idea was constantly trying to develop somewhere, and from this something came. Having initially poor initial conditions, the film managed to be! He is saved by beautiful gestures in the frame, looks, words, emotions – managed to collect the last clues of cinema and something in the audience to touch. The authors managed to scrape some graphics, the characters were surprised by several actions ... and a miracle happened - the film broke out of nothing like a sprout in the desert. You can watch it eventually. By the way, he changed the genre from action and horror to arthouse. So I can recommend this film as an example of the resilience of the crew.
By the way. These monsters are essentially aliens. It all began with Giger’s paintings, in which strangers are a broad concept, they are different there. For the most famous films, we took only a certain branch of this image, here we see another.