Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

redrobin62-321-207311 I really don't like giving moves such low ratings. It makes me feel...dirty, after all, I am a scriptwriter and hope to get one of my movies made into a film someday. Still, the reason I gave Species IV at least a 4 was for the cinematography and makeup. Ben Cross was okay, as usual, just out of his element in this film. Otherwise, the movie was nothing more than H.R. Giger Meets Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion. The flick started off well, too, before it turned into Caligula. Then, it was cliché after cliché, unnecessary nude scene after nude scene. I get it. Fanboys enjoy naked chicks in oil, but it does not for a good story make. Anyway, it is what it is. The Species franchise ended on a low point. That's okay, though. With the continued proliferation of recycling old horror films these days, a reboot can be foreseen.

SnoopyStyle Miranda (Helena Mattsson) is an university professor. She lives with her only family, uncle Tom Hollander (Ben Cross). Miranda is found unconscious and naked in the park. She is taken to the hospital where she transforms into an alien hybrid and kills several people. Tom arrives to find Miranda unconscious and goes on the run with her. He reveals the truth of her origins. They travel to Mexico in search of his former research partner Forbes McGuire (Dominic Keating) who helped create Miranda from combining human and alien DNA.This is the fourth movie of the franchise and a TV B-movie at heart. The horror and thriller aspect is only a shadow of the original. Mattsson is statuesque with sufficient acting skills. Ben Cross can't do much with this material. There seems to be alien DNA everywhere which devalues Miranda's singular potential for danger. There are long stretches where the film flatlines. This is not that good even considering its limited aspirations.

Uriah43 "Miranda Hollander" (Helena Mattsson) is a professor at a small college who is both smart and beautiful. She lives with her uncle "Tom Hollander" (Ben Cross) due to the fact that both of her parents were killed when she was quite young. At least that is what she has been told. The truth of the matter is that she was created by Tom and this other scientist named "Forbes McGuire" (Dominic Keating) as an experiment using human DNA and mixing it with the same type of alien DNA used in the previous movies. Realizing how volatile this combination was previously, Tom was secretly injecting human hormones into Helena to keep the alien part of her from coming to the surface. However, when her body develops a tolerance for the hormone she passes out and is taken to the hospital. It's at this time that the alien briefly emerges and viciously kills several medical people attending her. Fortunately, Tom arrives and manages to get her out and then both head for Mexico to find Forbes and hopefully a cure to prevent this from happening again. But neither of them are prepared for what happens next. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this movie essentially followed the same basic outline as the previous films with a few minor twists and turns along the way. The acting was somewhat uneven and the plot seemed a little rushed in places which might cause some confusion for those who haven't seen at least one or two of the other pictures. In any case, this movie wasn't quite as good as the first two films and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.

Lee Sherman One nice thing about the "Species" movies is that they all approach the subject from a different angle. "Species III" is terrible, but at least it doesn't recapitulate the plot of either previous film. This installment continues the trend. It's also rather entertaining, although "Species III" set the bar so low that it's easy to praise anything coming afterward.I enjoy this movie, with reservations, and I'll try to explain why without any major spoilers. Like I said, there's no rehashing...or returning cast members, for that matter. None of the human-alien hybrids in this movie are genetically identical to Sil and Eve, so none look quite the same in human or alien form. This also allows the writer (Ben Ripley, who scripted "Species III" but seems to be trying much harder this time around) to give them different strengths, weaknesses, and behavioral traits than the hybrids we've seen before without causing inconsistencies. That being said, the E.S.P. on display in this film seems like a stretch. But besides some minor issues, this movie adds new wrinkles to the "Species" mythos without contradicting or shifting emphasis from what we already know.Our main "template" here is played by Helena Mattson. Her roles tend to capitalize on her body more than her acting talents, but here she does a fine job of portraying a very human character, and the camera doesn't linger on her female anatomy *that* much. This character never doubted her humanity before, and her reactions to the revelations in the film are believable and evoke sympathy. She also plays a more hostile and contemptible character later in the sequence of events. The actress fits into the new persona well, and conveys this other set of character traits with subtlety. The other two thirds of the main cast consists of actors who've put on unimpressive performances in recent incarnations of "Star Trek," but both are more than passable here.Another thing that pleasantly surprised me is the number of truly scary moments. Not on the level of the first movie, and maybe not even on the level of "Alien 3," but definitely not your by-the-numbers aliens-killing-humans scenes. The only times the effects don't seem authentic is in scenes where things are happening so quickly it's hard to say what you're even seeing. One complaint goes to the scene where two of the hybrids (in "alien" form, with the exoskeletons and protuberances) appear together. They look so similar I often couldn't tell which was which. The movie's set mostly in Mexico, and uses the locales to creepy effect. You're likely to be reminded of "The Arrival" more than the previous "Species" installments (and that's not just due to the setting; both were produced by Lorenzo O'Brien). There are a couple times the action/slaying/mayhem verges on silly, but those are thankfully rare, and the movie doesn't really come across as over-the-top. Just don't expect clinical realism.I was perhaps most surprised by how the very ending was handled. I was expecting much worse. If this proves to be the final chapter in the "Species" series, it will be a worthy end.The bottom line is this isn't a bad sci-fi/horror/action movie. This isn't even one where you turn your brain off and enjoy yourself. This is a solid piece of cinema, despite going straight to D.V.D. However, there's nothing in the premise or plotting that's really brilliant, the creature designs and effects won't blow your mind, and the script's psychological and sociological insight is limited.