Resurrection had it's high & low points, the actual xenos were fantastic, looking incredibly realistic & extremely menacing, although they seemed to ditch their "silent ambush" tactics from the previous films in most cases & became like roaring dinosaurs, which was something of a shame, although it did give them an increased sense of feral power & ferocity.
Ripley 8 wasn't anywhere near as interesting as her predecessor either, rather being a much cheesier character, & having many strange, & at times almost erotic moments involving the aliens, which was just too damn strange in my opinion, even though the original film had subtle sexual nods. The reason for those situation was obviously dur to her being part alien in the film, although it still became irritating at times.
The overall dark, bleak tone of the film worked in it's favour, & did create a few truly tense & creepy moments, although this was offset by some relatively boring characters & cheesy dialogue. The thing that killed the film for me though was the introduction of the newborn, a complete spit in the face of the entire franchise. To rub salt into the already gaping wound created by it's appearance, the creature killed the queen within it's first 30 seconds of screen time, which I thought to be subconsciously fairly disrespectful to the past films. The creature itself was a walking disgrace to the xenomorphs, looking like a giant, vomit stained tea-pot with arms & legs, & big puppy dog eyes for the audience to sympathize with. Admittedly, the newborn had it's creepy moments, but that doesn't change that it was an absolutely horrible element of the franchise which most of us have likely pushed into the far recesses of our minds in an attempt to forget all about.
Alien Resurrection was a reasonable film overall, but can't hold a candle to the other films in the franchise in my opinion.