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Summary: Don't set aside time for this one.
Review: As a fan of the original Alien series, I had high expectations for this movie. I personally believe this was a good movie, but it really wasn't what I had hoped it would be.
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Summary: Remember to close the cargo bay hatch!
Review: This is as visually impressive as you would expect from the director of The City of Lost Children, but the genius behind the Alien series has been sadly lost. The characters are nearly all stereotypes we've seen before in the first movie and two sequels, and the plot twist about Winona Ryder's character is old, too.The reason the first two Alien films were so brilliant and the last two were so rubbish was that the directors wisely concentrated on quick editing and darkness to hide the aliens from full view. In Alien 3 and this, the special effects are flaunted too much and there is no sense of mystery or menace. By the way, a small tip for any characters in future Alien movies: IT'S IN THE CARGO BAY!!!
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Summary: This movie is very bad!
Review: The first two Alien movies are sci-fi classics, the third was a waste of time, and this one is not too much better. The filmmakers tried to combine the best aspects of the first two movies, but this one had neither the atmosphere of the first or the intensity of the second. The most shameful part is that is movie is NOT scary at all! Gross as hell, but even my wife wasn't frightened. Sigourney Weaver's character appeared to care less about being in this movie. The horrendous dialog makes a mockery of the whole series. And the gore is forced and gratutitous, convincing me they were just trying to top the other movies. This movie is the nail in the coffin. Rest in peace.
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Summary: Good story, lousy cast, terrible direction
Review: First of all let's focus on the bad parts of this movie. The cast is absolutely awful. I've never seen a bigger collection of unconvincing losers before in such a big-budget production. The special effects are way worse than those in Aliens. I know a lot of people won't agree with me, but I feel that the Computer Generated imagery doesn't work at all, they should have sticked to the acrobats in suits who are suspended from wires like in Aliens, which looked much more convincing. Wynona Ryder is a good actress for drama, but stinks in action movies. Now for the good parts : the story is quite good, I especially love the newborn alien. Nobody seems to understand what the Alien series is really about : namely Ripley's motherhood. After loosing her own born child between Alien and Aliens and after loosing Newt between Aliens and Alien 3, the new and improved Ripley finally gets another baby. I think the newly born was quite scary, with his uncontrollable strength and his humanlike helplesness. Sigourney Weaver plays a phenomenal Ripley/Alien hybrid. The best thing of all is the way her character changes from movie to movie. In Alien she plays an arrogant Officer. In Aliens she starts out as a traumatised, helpless woman, who becomes a warrior out of her maternal instincts. In Alien 3 she has lost all hope and begins to relate somehow to the aliens. And now in Alien Ressurection she partly becomes an alien herself. You can see how she struggles between her human side and her alien side. ONE THING I like to emphasize : if you have seen this film and hated it, look at it again with an open mind, don't compare its style and setting to the other ones. The approach to this movie was way different than to that to the other ones. This wasn't meant to be a serious movie, but a comic.
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Summary: Pretty good.
Review: I liked the trailer of it. It is a pretty sound movie that resurrects the dead (but good) Alien series. Hence, the title, I'd guess. . .
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Summary: Alien Ressurection is the most powerful film sense Aliens
Review: In Alien 3, LT Ellen Ripley and the prisoners who were killed by the alien beast, killed herself to stop Bishop's creator Bishop 2 and his company from taking the new-born alien back to Earth. And you thought the series was over. 300 years later, Military scientist's collect Ripley's DNA samples, and Ripley is ressurected so they can get the alien from inside her. The soldiers and scientist's want to use the alien for a biological war, to follow in the company's footsteps. Ripley's blood is mixed with the aliens, as aliens are being cloned. A pirate called Call and her space pirates break on-board the military ship to stop the aliens, but when all the scientists and soldiers on-board are killed by the alien. They team with Ripley to stop the ship from reaching Earth. (The question is: will there be a Alien 5?)
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Summary: By far the worst of the 4
Review: I was always an Alien fan.The first two are great movies,and the third is my favorite.I went to see this and I was like "huh?". I always thought the Alien movies were supposed to be dark and menacing,not comical. Black humor is always welcome in these dark movies,but the silly pop-culture jokes in AR are woefully out of place. That's not the worst of it though. Sometimes the scenes meant to be dramatic/scary are laughable (the piece of brain scene,the death of the nerdy scientist scene,the whole dopey newborn scene). The reason why this doesn't get a 1 star is that I liked a few of the characters. Brad Dourif as Gediman was delightfully weird,and Michael Wincott and Ron Pearlman were cool and likable.
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Summary: Jeunet's masterpiece, but not Alien's masterpiece
Review: The idea of cloning Ripley seemed like the perfect way to not only reintroduce a dead character, but also change her somewhat. Jeunet's earlier films (City of lost children, De4licatesin)evoke a very gritty and raw element which works perfectly for an Alien film. However, his Peter Jackson-esque sense of humor does not fit in though. Also the bullet tracers look rediculous. The effects in general are quite good, and fit in well with the production design...whith one stark exception, the newborn. I don't know how this got off the sketch pad. The stupid sense of humor is also part of this with it's rediculous bugs bunny sympathy eyes, and its retarded baby cooing. Someone somewhere during the course of this production should have stood up and said something like "For Christ's sake man, what are you thinking??!!" Unfortunately for us, this never happened. aside from that though, it is a pretty good movie. Brad Douriff is wickedly entertaining as always, and Sigourney finds a new edge to her character, a sort of patton leather dominatrix with a darkness boiling just below the surface. Worth checking out.
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Summary: Awesome flick!
Review: This movie is very entertaining. It is much more modern-day than the first 3. I think this really shines through them all. When Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver : Aliens 3, Aliens) gets resurrected from the dead by some pretty stupid scientists all hell breaks lose. It is breeding season for her, and guess what? She has babies, easily. They are in space so who knows what could happen next? Will they all die? Or will they manage to fight the aliens with all their power?
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Summary: A laugher!
Review: I couldnt help but laugh at some of the scenes. Especially the love scenes between Ripley and the Alien. I kept wondering when the camera's would pan back and we would see the Science Theater 3000 characters making jokes as the movies ran. The plot was absurd and dialog even worse. Alien and Aliens are some of the finest sci fi out there. Too bad the studios got greedy and lazy.
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