Absolutely typical xeno horror of its time, in the 90s such films grew like mushrooms, their budgets and quality varied from bottom to average. Everyone wanted to make their own "Alien", "Predator", "Something", "Independence Day" or at least "Fly" and "Universal Soldier". But to repeat this, you need a team of creators, visionaries and good money. When they are not, it turns out just a fantasy on the topic, just a little more content in the treasury of the genre. This film was even lucky: the authors still managed to find their own special feature, which the film stood out and was remembered for – Natasha Henstridge. The local monster turned out to be a sexy beauty, and at that time it turned out to be a novelty, the authors managed to play with the concept. But it didn't go beyond the concept, because there's no plot, we just have an alien lady who does this kind of bad stuff, and there's an amorphous team of people looking for her. In the end, it is leaked, and the film, according to the good old tradition, ends with the joke “And the evil is not destroyed, what were you looking at then?” There’s no real story, it’s one cliché, this film doesn’t surprise you with a single scene, there’s never something unexpected happening in it. It's not history, it's pattern!
It may sound strange, but I like the sequels much more. Yes, they are clearly cheap, there are nouneima, the picture looks kind of frivolous, the setting is becoming more and more mundane. But at the same time, the scripts and the author’s thought have finally worked there, there is always something happening with the concept, there is something to be surprised about. And this is just a given, it's flat.