It's slightly better than before, a novelty I'd say.
While it didn't do a great job of it, least I can see attempts of building characters, trying to reel in the audience in engaging with the hostile environment of Antarctica and the temple, making Aliens not simple cannon fodder, and an honest attempt of telling a cohesive AVP story. Not the best, but not the worst when AVPR is right there and unlike AVP, I can barely see it.
Time had made me realize that I do love Charles Weyland's superior characterization here than in Prometheus. Peter Weyland is a chump that pees himself at the thought of passing away. Charles wanted to leave some kind of positive legacy behind, listens to Lex's story about her father dying, and reminds her that her drinking champagne with her father was more important than him dying, AND willing to fight a Predator in order to buy Lex and Sebastian time to get away. It even adds to the tragedy of the overall lore of Weyland Yutani that despite the founder being a brave and sympathetic man, The Company becomes anything but that, willing to steal, cheat, lie, and sacrifice anything for the bottom line.
Aliens doesn't have the biomechanical look so it still the worst design.
People diss on the Predator designs and while I agree the face is garbage due to ADI, I don't hate on the armor or their muscular build. Just adds more to the overall Predator lore of various Predator designs. Predator Hunting Grounds even vindicates this when you see all the cool body types that the various Predator characters have in the game.
Not complete trash, if the sequel was actually an huge improvement and perhaps a following to an actual future story, least AVP would have been a decent start up for the my theoretical AVP film trilogy. Shame that this and AVPR will be the only AVP films we are going to get in our lifetime.
6/10