There was some anticipation when it was announced there would be a new Alien film featuring much of the cast from the 1986 James Cameron movie. However audiences reacted with bemusement when the film opened on Hicks, Apone, Vasquez and even Burke involved in oiled-up, 15-certificate sex party, and were revealed to be clones involved some sort of polycule or fashionable sex thing.
At one point Hicks cracked, thinking there was something a bit peculiar about all this. He dragged Drake out of cryosleep, put a pulse rifle in his mouth and began blasting away. All of the flesh on his head was instantly incinerated but the skull seemed indestructible, conforming some suspicion he had.
As the movie unfolded, it was revealed/explained in some convoluted link to Alien:Resurrection they were all partial Alien hybrids. However the big twist at the end was all of this was somehow set in the same cinematic universe as Battlefield:Earth, and the last scenes involved Hicks and co sporting those awful dreadlocks. It performed poorly at the box office and scored low on Rotten Tomatoes.