Saw this last night and wondered where the director's magic bandage was, he really needed it for the gaping plot holes!
Apparently in the future, dangerous human/alien hybrids will be kept in fragile glass cages, and be guarded by specially selected incompetent security people who never use their weapons.
The first astronaut on Mars, Patrick, will be able to wander around the US entirely unrecognised by anyone; nobody will remember seeing him at crime scenes, nor abducting screaming women in carparks. Even without Patrick wearing a complicated disguise, e.g. a hat or sunglasses, the "50 agents" out looking for him won't be able to track him down.
When dangerous human/alien hybrids escape from their glass cage, specially trained inaccurate marksmen will assemble in huge numbers and manage to hit their target as many as three or four times. When the dangerous hybrid gets up and runs off again, the STIM will once again manage to miss both their target and a large military vehicle she steals.
Dangerous human/alien hybrids in a car can only be tracked by another car, containing a handful of ill-equipped scientists/hitmen/horny astronauts. Hordes of STIM will only arrive by helicopter once the crisis is over.
Dangerous regenerating aliens or human/alien hybrids will only be shot with normal small arms ammunition, because incendiary or explosive bullets are terribly unsporting. Nobody in the future thinks to use flamethrowers, or grenades, or napalm.
Wallpaper steamers are lethal to aliens (I think they were wallpaper steamers. They surely didn't look like hi-tec weapons)
Politicians and senior army officers are willing to risk the destruction of the human species, and their pension, in order to cover up mistakes made by other people in competing agencies in different administrations.
Regenerating human/alien hybrid corpses will be left untouched, unguarded and unwatched until - well, until reason arrives for a sequel, I guess.
All I can remember about this one is that despite the silly jokes (my favourite: Madsen screaming: "Tell me where the cornflakes are or I'll shoot you dead!"), the gore and the fact that Natasha Henstridge was walking around half-naked during a great deal of her screentime, it was f**king boring.
hahahaha,
THis movie was so far from the first Species it was laughable. You must admit there were some real hot babes in the cast. I also enjoyed when the astronaut blew off his head and it regenerated.
However, as you said, the plot holes were huge, the characters inane, and Masden was angry. All in all, it was fun.
Watch it on one of the cable channels (SciFi, TNT, TBS etc), even though her breasts are completely covered up by the two blue straps that cross her chest, they felt the need to add a horizontal CGI strap. Watch carefully and you'll see it 'float' a little where they didn't quite match the movements perfectly. Prudes!
man, this was one of those 'did i just watch this whole movie?' flicks. it has no redeeming value from front to back and no real plot to speak of. the guy blowing his head off is really the only part of the movie anyone ever talks about, and that is sad!