"How can a bug control a starship?"
Sony keep the franchise alive with this fourth 'movie', a fully-CGI mo-capped direct-to-DVD effort that is by no means the worst so far (the woeful Hero Of The Federation will still take some beating on that score) but struggles to be more than mediocre. The spaceship designs show some pleasing detail, but character animation is more variable and at times awkward. There is an inevitable upfront influence of the Alien series and anime on the whole visual aesthetic and story moments - the women in particular are pneumatic fetishised objects - but this entry add very little to the overall mythos, relying instead on mostly well-staged but repetitive spaceship-bound bug attacks. Previous (now promoted) characters give some familiarity, but they are not voiced by the original actors. The DVD transfer is soft, and whilst there is clearly a degree of love and effort put into this production, it is not especially strong or memorable.
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