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Summary: Alien Resurrection is Superb
Review: I had a blast seeing "Alien Resrrection". Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, and the other cast members all gave decent performances in the flim. The film has thrills, action,and good special effects. If you're a big fan of the 20th century fox's aliens movies, then check out "Alein Resurrection"(especially in the widescreen format).
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Summary: Has problems, but is still worth watching
Review: Well, I suppose this is a better note to end the Alien series on than Alien 3, which was just a cuss-riddled mess, but there were still some notable problems with Alien Resurrection.First off, I would love to know why the resurrected (from a molten steel vat? uh, I don't think so) Ripley is half alien, a plot element that was never explained in any sort of detail. Second, I would love to know why they decided to saturate this movie with profanity. I'm not some pro-censorship conservative (it's rated R, what was I supposed to expect?) but about 1/2 the profanity would have done just fine, and there is so much F word usage in this movie that it actually wears down on it. Plot: 7/10 (Original, but not very complex) Special effects: 8/10 (Good old aliens stuff!) Screenplay: 6/10 (Choppy storyline, long, but still fun) Casting: 7/10 (Good actors for the smugglers, the rest sufficed)
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Summary: I was rooting for the aliens
Review: Just ugly, kind of like a perverse Star Trek for horror fans. The dialogue is particularly bad, one of the worst scripts I've encountered lately. The actors curiously talked like they thought they were making a prison film or perhaps a low-budget Mexican western. Clint Eastwood extras would be embarrassed to say some of the lines. Winona Ryder is horribly miscast and looks and sounds stupid, although her voice is kind of amusing, especially if you like to hear her say "f---." (I kinda like it.) Sig Weaver is semi-interesting in a bloodless and buff sort of way; but the rest of this dreary, low-brow space shoot 'em up with monsters, is a yawn. If you get off on gross biological freaks in formaldehyde, however, or like to pucker up to T Rex teeth dripping acid, or go for that special feel of flesh being ripped, etc., this might be for you. Absolutely worst line (but funny as twice-removed accidental humor) is Ron Perlman's comment (after Weaver burns and blows away the grotesque embryos and her own twisted, misshapen clone) "Must be a chick thing." Banal observation: you'd think after all the years in space, evolving away from mother earth, there would be some advance in degenerate habits; but no, these space terrorists still smoke cigarettes and drink whiskey-and I'M SURE basketball with metal nets will still be played on playgrounds orbiting around Jupiter. Banal observation number two: with all that fire power, you'd think they'd blow holes in the ship and lose all the air. Alas, no. There's a special place in hell for people who produce movies like this. In it they are fastened into seats with their eye lids propped open, forced to watch their creations for eternity. I think they should also be forced to talk about how good the movie is and how they've done something just wonderful. And could we hear Winona Ryder tell us once again what a thrill it was working with Sigourney Weaver?
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Summary: a great sci-fi, horror film
Review: The tendency is to make comparisons to the previous Alien films... But that's the easy way out! By itself, Alien Ressurection is a great sci-fi horror film with great special effects and great acting for this genre. Sigourney Weaver's returning role was expected, but Winona Ryder's induction into the series was totally refreshing and brought a different atmospheric quality to the whole movie. The desolation in space, the morbid emptiness, the alien horror and inevitable destruction... it's all there, and makes for a horrific, yet fascinating trip into the depths of an ominous outer space.
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Summary: OK action film, bad Aliens movie
Review: After Alien3, which was pretty though dissapointing, I though thinking the series couldn't get worse. I was wrong. Sure, in this movie, the acting is better, the special effects are better, and there are plenty of guns and fights and neat action sequences. But the movie also happens to be predictable, and instead of any interesting or constructive dialogue we get conversations about how f---able people are, as well as countless one-liners and wisecracks that aren't really necessary. Also, compared to Aliens, this aliens are nothing. In the superior second film of the series, the marines would spray an Alien with 15 shots or so, most of which would bounce off, and maybe one would break the things carapace. Then, the marine would be splattered with blood and burn. In this film, 1 bullet fired from underwater is enough to take down an alien, and in a scene where a guy is splattered in the face with acid, it looks incredibly painful, but takes away only a few layers of skin before it stops. The "Newborn" at the end is incredibly dumb -- it looked ling a fleshy kangaroo alien, and it served no real purpose. There's all kinds of impossible bullet physics used, as well as contradictions to the earlier films -- the Weyland-Yutani company from 1-3, is now the Weyland-Utanic company, now defunct, for example. Weaver's acting is appropriately chilling and well done, but Ryder is very underused, and Christie's demise is completely unnecessary -- plus, why would it necessarily kill him to fall 30 feet into the water? I do like the director's style, also evident in his other movie, City of the Lost Children, but this film just had too much going against it to merit a higher rating.
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Summary: Ouch!
Review: I had heard alot of people saying that Alien Ressurection brought new life to the series was up there with Alien and Aliens. Neadless to say I got a nasty suprise. Alien 3 had it's problems but it's a freaking masterpiece compared to this film. While the idea of Ripley being resurected isn't bad the cast is just terrible. Even Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder do lousy jobs. The story gets pretty stupid also. Once again the Aliens manage to break free after they get one out of Ripley's clone. However, this time it doesn't take a while and build up a gradual suspense like the first 3 films. This time they seem to break out right after they get them. Later you discover that the scientists are trying to mix humans and aliens together into a new species. It's never really explaned why they are doing this; the audience is expect just to sit back and say "well I guesse the scientists don't have anything better to do. There are a few interesting action sequences but most are forgetable and the film just isn't scary. Alien 3's problem was a bad script. Alien Resurection's problem is that it is simply a bad movie.
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Summary: 4 stars for part 4
Review: I was surprised with this one! I admit, it was silly to ressurect Ripley, but she was made into an entirely different person, making it seem like a new person and a new beginning. You'll like this one because, like ALIENS, 'RESSURECTION' has alot of aliens running around, including the queen. This one also had a new breed of alien at the end (half human) that was sad in ways :)
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Summary: Two good movies followed by two bad movies.
Review: The makers of Alien 4 try to breath life into a dead francise but were doomed to failure.I think they should have forgotten about Alien 3 and started again with Alien 4.They could have had Ripley waking up from a nightmare(Alien 3),washing her face while looking in the mirror and saying-"what a nightmare,I feel like I've been in a bad movie!"Then start again with a real sequel.
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Summary: Hasty,silly and cardboard.
Review: Sigourney Weaver returns in another terrifying and suspenseful tale of man versus the invincible beast. 200 years after Ripley falls to a climactic and fiery death in Alien 3, man has achieved the ability to clone a person from a simple drop of blood. Enter Lt. Ellen Ripley. The brave heroine we all admired for her unwillingness to conform to the evils of mainstream society and corporate cunning is stuck with a band of mercenaries on a military ship bound for earth. Because of the fact an alien was inside Ripley when she died, she has been brought back not entirely as a human, but rather a strange and unnerving new breed of human who's bloodlines have crisscrossed with that of the legendary, acid toting, super strength Grendel of a creature. The military team has secretly made a deal with the mercenaries to spawn these creatures on a mass level. The film begins to take on its familiar feel when the plan goes awry and the mercenaries are left with no choice but to fend off the creatures who are killing everyone on the ship one by one. This film is nothing more than a combination its first three predecessors. Every element of the past films are easily detected here and the only thing that is worse than seeing a repeat of a movie you've already viewed is seeing a bad movie in itself. For all the love I have for the previous three films in the series, I have to admit that I have rarely seen a movie that so lacks a plot and moves with such a blurr. I am especially surprised that this film is the work of French director Jean Pierre Jeunet, who otherwise has woven works of genius and stunning originality ( City Of Lost Children, Delicatessen). The only thing worth seeing in this film is the cast of veteran actors and its new and ever blood-curdling creatures.
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Summary: Absolute Garbage
Review: This film is trash and all of you Alien fans know it is. Shame on Sigourney Weaver for even stooping to say lines like "Who do I have to f%#@ to get off this ship?" Ripley Rest In Peace. Sheesh! As usual, typical Hollywood mongoloids thought that they could spend multi-millions on sets and effects, and simply dispense with a coherent, first-rate story. The writers who came up with this bag of alien dung should be bathed in alien blood-acid. I'd like to know who the fourth-rate writer(s)of this film slept with to get their job(s). They must be really good in the sack, because they certainly weren't born with any genuine, substantial talent. Finally, if this movie doesn't prove (once and for all) that Winona Ryder is the most overrated, marginally talented actress on Hollywood's A-list, then I don't know what will prove it. Her version of the droid Call is the whiniest, dippiest, worst case of acting I've ever seen. She plays the role like she plays every other role she's done: like some third-rate mallrat who just happened to get discovered and shoved into all manner of films. But Sigourney Weaver is just as guilty for ruining this franchise with such a bad, half-hearted, rake-in-the-money performance. Thank God she redeemed herself with that gig in Galaxy Quest. I watched this DVD immediately after watching the brilliant, stunning Aliens, and I wanted to just cry. What a travesty. What an insult to the series.
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