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Summary: excellent
Review: this movie is a wonderful edition to the aliens series.
i have watched it nomerous times.
thank you for the movie.
i have been looking for it for some time.
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Summary: How much gore can you put into a film....
Review: Well with Ripley's death in Alien 3, and the general anger that film goers had over it, 20th Century Fox decited that maybe we should bring Ripley back for another picture, but they were at wit's end on how to do it. One reason why almost seven years went by between the two films was that the scripts that were done to try and find a convinceing way to restore Ellen Ripley to life were not that credible or convinceing, so they finally decited on the clone idea. That was the only way to do it. But it still does not work in the movie. Sure, we have Ripley back, but she is different. She does not appear to have the same memories of her original life, although through the picture, she does recall brief moments here and there. This is 300 years later, so the production design crew went for a more used look of the ship. It seems more broken, pipes leak everywhere, there is smoke, and the computers look shot. The only interesting cast member in this film is Ron Pearlman, he has all the good lines and side bar jokes, but the rest including Sigourney, look burned out. It seems that the more of these movies they make, the more people seem to like ALIENS as the best one of them all. A curious trueism that the more time goes by, the better certain movies look. Perhaps we should take a lesson of this and just dismiss Alien 3 and 4 as dreams of bad film directors.
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Summary: RIP Ripley
Review: May the Alien franchise Rest In Peace. With a very thin story line, questionable acting, and marginal special effects, this movie is a little less than entertaining!Of the franchise, Aliens will remain the classic!
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Summary: Bad movie, wery bad movie
Review: Its no surprise that this was the least popular Alien movie. The other 3 movies were all a bit similar, Alien 3 was not a good film but at least it looked like the other films.
This movie is compleetly diffrent from the other alien movies. Its weird and not beliveble. The aliens are not cool in this one and are often made with wery bad visual effects.
Dont see this film. Not even once, if you have not seen Alien 1 and 2 then by all means see them. They are a must see.
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Summary: Phenomonally Bad, and not Entertaining-Bad
Review: No movie has ever come so close to Bad without crossing the line and becoming at least a little entertaining in its awfulness. Alien Resurrection will never be surpassed in this regard. Aliens was clearly the peak of this franchise. While I enjoyed Alien, and found it's impact more profound, it was hard to beat the fun+message of James Cameron's version. Alien 3 was disappointing for what might have been. You just can't take Sigourney Weaver, a "Future Corporation is Very Bad" theme, and a bunch of scary monsters and stir them up in a prison without at least trying to make some sort of point. Alien 3 was about nothing. I was entirely hopeful that Alien Resurrection would at least advance the series in a logical direction; 1) Alien/Human interaction in Exploration, 2) Alien/Human interaction in Human Colony, 3) Alien/Human interaction in Human Homeworld - something like the reverse of the Smallpox virus in the Americas. Alas - it was not to be. Admittedly, I fell asleep several times during the viewing of this atrocity. And yet I found that I had missed virtually none of the plot: Bunch of miscreants running around a futuristic set with lots of monsters. The acting was awful, the characters were thin and antiempathetic, and the special effects were marginal. The ultimate climax of the movie, which I happened to be awake for, was so comedically inept that I shudder to contemplate it even now. It must have all been Sigourney Weaver's fault - the miserable bawling of the half-human-half-alien-half-puppydog creature with it's oh-so-heart-rending ethical/instinctual dilemma.... oh! the humanity! One can only hope that this terrible bomb of a movie has firmly nailed shut the Aliens series, never (NEVER!) to rise again... so long as Ms. Weaver is available & interested.
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Summary: Highly Underrated
Review: The science here is not as impossible as some of the other reviewers would have you believe. First of all, particularly intense memories, such as those of the first three Alien movies, can be stored by the human brain in RNA form. This explains why Ripley would remember her past life. Second, I do not believe that the alien queen was the result of the cloning proicess; they never actually say that it is, and it seems much more logical that they would implant a new bugger. Come on, do you really think that after 200 years, they'd be unable to find another planet with aliens on it? That would explain why the aliens of this movie look different from those of the previous movies. Third, there are metals that resist acid, so the surgery is hardly impossible...The complaints against this movie are extremely minor, and it is sad that so many people cannot see how great it is.
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Summary: The Bad Turns Cloning Can Take
Review: In the depths of space, mankind is oftentimes found probing oddities they dont understand and doing what man does best; playing the role of deity and thinking that this will never cause any sort of problem for them in the longrun. Its also been a longstanding idea in the Alien series, showing mankind's ignorance when thinking in terms of discovery and destructive power. This once again is flaunted here, leading to a military project that has decidedly unadvised intentions, namely using the Xeno as a piece of weaponry. In order to acomplish this a scientific team takes a little taste of Ripley remains left behind of a certain prison planet, pull out a little genetic sampling from those droplets of blood that weren't baked away in the inferno-conclusion to the 3rd piece, and then start cloning her and the Queen Xeno cargo her belly was carrying. All this goes pretty well, constructing a genetic breed of human looking Ripley (with alien features) and a Queen that was kicking it in her belly, and the testing truly begins. Enter a band of space "pirates" out to make a few dollars with some cargo that the station needs, the breathing kind that can carry a little packet of love in its stomach, and you have a problem that, doubtlessly, gets out of hand. In many rights, Aliens Resurrection did so many things in a wondrous way and yet, with the touch of a little storyline blundering and the genetic misfit it decides to parade around at the end, managed to fail. Its a sad thing, too, because the front half of the movie, except for the fact that we once again are bound to the hip of Ripley, is really good. The experimentation with the Alien shows that it is smarter than humans give it credit it for, as is shown in their ability in former movies to cut the lights to buildings, and even shows a somewhat mean streak in their ways of playing. When everything goes from bad to worse, the aliens swarming looks great with their glistening Xeno skins and their ability to maim, and the panic ensuing becomes something of a grandiose nightmare. This ends, however, when the Ripley factor of the movie becomes a stumbling block because, well, she's kind of dead, and the alien experiment comes to a somewhat bumbling head. For someone with an open mind and that can stomach a good movie with a questionable ending, then this is something that you might want to look into. It isn't really the best of the Alien creations, though, and isn't one that I like to hold up high as a movie for everyone. Even fans of the Xeno, knowing the wondrous plots laid aside in Dark Horse presentations, understand that the experimental route could have gone in a better direction. That said, there are still Aliens herein and there is still dying, and the Xenos get a little of the respect they deserve in an interestingly horrific underwater scene and in the experimental phases they go through. So, watchers be warned that this is a mixed bag of events.
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Summary: worst in the series
Review: Before getting too far, I've got to say that this flick leaves little doubt that the Alien series is extinct, having lost whatever originality or spunk the left over from "Alien3". While 3 was a serious misfire, "Resurrection" does everything wrong, essentially becoming little more than a filmed version of one of the many Alien stories published in Dark Horse comics, following the pattern set repeatedly in those stories (scientists with more technical know-how and ambition than good sense experiment with our favorite aliens. Though mindless creatures that work on instinct, the Aliens manage to outmaneuver the big-minds, leaving a squad of badass soldiers to fend against the rogue bugs.) Here, the script follows form and even generates a few acid-holes in its plot. In "Resurrection", centuries have past since the end of "3". Scientists combing over the planet on which Ripley died at the last movie's end, recover some blood she left after she had been implanted with an alien host. Somehow, the blood is enough for them clone not just Ripley, but the Alien she was carrying as well. (The film wisely shows us previous unsuccessful "attempts"). In the first few minutes, set aboard a huge spaceship) we see the scientists grow the clone-Ripley to adulthood (why Ripley must be matured that far when the Alien DNA is already in her blood is just the first plot hole). Rather than allow the implanted alien to burst threw her (the military heads of the project, led by a miscast Dan Hedaya) Ripley's alien is surgically removed. Mind you, the technology around looks about as sophisticated as the stuff available in "Aliens" - when it was impossible to remove a "face-hugger" without killing its host. The scientists sucessfully raise the alien to titanic maturity and only incidentally notice that their Ripley is not the Ripley they expected - she's super strong, darkly mannered and has acid for blood (something that didn't keep them from performing surgery on her). Once the alien begins laying eggs, the scientists turn to a group of mercenaries to supply human hosts to the alien. (Just to give how clueless the script is about scaring us, the scene in which the human are "implanted" is lamely brief.) Before the mercs can leave, newly matured alien warriors manage to find their way out of their pens (bleeding themselves onto their prison walls). The spaceship is soon turned into an alien hive. Ripley and the mercs - which include Ron Perelman ("Beauty and the Beast") and Winona Ryder - have to find away to keep the spaceship from returning to Earth, and escape it as well. Not only is that the plot behind countless issues of Dark Horse "Aliens" stories, the plot goes nowhere. Further, the pacing is slowed down by poorly staged action scenes - the aliens in other movies were incredibly nimble, which doesn't begin to explain a drawn out sequence on a ladder. The aliens themselves not only get too much screen time, they don't seem to know that they're not supposed to stand still (didn't the director see the first two movies? Didn't he see "Jaws") long enough for us to scope them out. These aliens, more than in any of the other movies, look like guys in suits. Set design is also horrible - the spaceship has plenty of rooms and sliding doors arranged simply to give our heroes someplace to run to and from. About as bad is all is the junk science - this is the first movie in the series in which the aliens are engineered, meaning that reasonable scientific principles are supposed to be at work. However, that doesn't begin to explain why the cloned Ripley is so different from the original. If she's a clone, she can't be that different - but the script turns her into some hybrid of human alien without explaining how the alien of Alien3 infected the original Ripley's blood. It seems that the practical possibilities of alien/human hybrids is significant, though Hedaya's character is not only impressed but wants to destroy her anyway. The idea that the alien even has DNA that's interchangeable with the human kind is a stretch - these are supposed to be aliens! If they could mix with us so easily, they wouldn't be aliens. And what's the deal with computerized security locks that work based on a person's breath? But worst of all is the story's moral - there isn't any. The first two films worked on an acceptable premise - man's greed exceeds the aliens' monstrousness, since the aliens rely on our greed to provide them an opportunity to infect us (in "Alien", the crew of Nostromo respond to a distress call on LV-426 because "The Company" will dock their pay if they ignore it). But the greedy humans of "Resurrection" are wiped out too quickly - leaving the mercs and Ripley. We don't know what to make of the mercenaries - they aren't anywhere near as cool as the marines from "Aliens" or Brett and Parker from the first movie. In short, toss this flick in an airlock and, for real chills, get the "Aliens" special ed.
Rating:
Summary: best in series
Review: aCTION GORE SCARES THE PERFECT SEQUELALIENS ARE ABOARD A MILATARY SHIP WITH THE CLONED RIPLEY AND BUNCH AND THEY FIGHT TO GET OFF THE MOTHERSHIP GREAT SEQUEL
Rating:
Summary: Ick, Yuck
Review: The aliens landing on earth would have been a better storyline rather than this garbage. Who told Ryder that she could act? She got lost in this movie--her presence wasn't needed. What a waste.
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