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Summary: Even Resurrection Cannot Revive The Alien ¿Franchise¿
Review: THE ALIEN FRANCHISE IS DEAD. Why do they keep bringing Ripley back anyway? I mean, didn't they go out of their way to kill her in the last terrible Alien movie? The premise of this movie, standard Aliens vs. poeple stuff, could have been good if the movie had tried to make the situation seem plausable. The cartoony Alien and it's ITCHY AND SCRATCHY death scene was unforgivable.
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Summary: Do French Directors Get Science Fiction?
Review: If you ask me, French directors should stay out of the SF genre. Like Fahreheit 451 (Francois Truffaut) and The Fifth Element, Alien Resurrection was a bit too 'artsy' for lack of a better word. I've seen these movie on cable and video. It appears they concentrated a lot on the scenery, but where was the story going?IMHO, they should have stopped at Aliens. It just gets tiresome to see these aliens, as gruesome as they are as unadulterated killing machines, striking terror in humans that blunder upon them. Anyway, that's my view.
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Summary: Load of Slimy Crap
Review: Destroying the whole purpose of the first three Alien movies, Alien:Resurrection came along in 1997 as an excuse to make decent CGI xenomorphs. One of the underlying themes of Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3, was Ripley's determination to keep scientists from getting at the alien, knowing it spelled doom for humankind. However, "Resurrection" begins with Ripley's alien baby being removed (in the first of many unnecessary gorefests in this movie) and allowed to grow and reproduce. As usual, they get out and start kicking some military hinder. The lousy performances of Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dan Hedaya, and even Sigourney Weaver don't help. The ending just sums up what this movie is about. Slime, blood, and acid spewing everywhere. The hybrid newborn makes Jar Jar Binks look like a triumph in the art of movie making. This movie is strictly for fans of the series and people who are into deformed Ripley clones. This one will make you root for the Aliens.
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Summary: Its good, not the best.
Review: Ressurection was good enough to own, but it wasnt awsome! I mean it was a good movie, but the thing that disappointed me about this film was that its a lot different than the first 3. Dont get me wrong though its still a pretty good entry in the series. This time around, its 200 years later. The Military resurrects the long dead Ripley from blood samples they retrived from the prison planet of Alien 3(a little hard to belive since she was burned in the furnace at the end). Anyways the decide to resurrect her to get the alien from her. They start their own race of the aliens. Soon they escape and the people of the ship have to run for their lives, including visitors from another ship thats docked their. Good entry, yet lacks some true alien fun. I can't say i loved Winona Ryder in this movie. Maybe if they make Alien 5 it will be better. Rated R for violence, language, alien gore, and some brief nudity.
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Summary: Ugh ... kill it
Review: Of the four Alien films, this one has to be the scum on the base of the barrel. Apparently, it isn't enough that the story has very little to do with the Alien mythology, but the director also tries to poke fun at the legacy of the series ... and fails. For some reason, it just doesn't feel right to try to make a pastiche of what has become legend among movie-goers, and try to include that pastiche in with the regular series. It's too much like a slap iin the face. Furthermore, the movie is riddled with inaccuracies. How could scienctists clone Ripley ALONG WITH the alien inside of her? The alien and Ripley are two separate life-forms, and without both strands of DNA, it would only be scientifically possible to clone one of them, not the both of them together. How can Ripley tear out an alien tongue if the aliens have acid for blood? And the whole mother/baby alien bit is too much to accept; even if science could develop one clone inside another from a single strand of DNA, it's too implausible to think that the human clone could pass along some of her traits to the "offspring." Nothing adds up, and very little makes any sense. And even if you could ignore all that, what about the acting? The actors all play stereotypical characters, except for Winona Ryder, who plays her usual, whiny, stock character, and I kept thinking that if there were anyone not suited to be in an Alien film, she's the one. Still, I have to admit, Sigourney Weaver plays a different sort of Ripley, which shows off a bit more of her range, and I was pretty impressed with her naive, bad-attitude self. Unfortunately, that's the only bright spot. The other three films focus so much on the characteristics that set the human race apart from the aliens, and that gives the movies a touch of depth. Resurrection misses that point entirely. I guess having a clone and a robot as the main characters detracts too much from that theme. I can't even say much for the action sequences, which are supposed to be so much different from anything else on the screen. Ooh, an underwater scene. (Seen it.) Aliens popping out of floors. (Deja vu!) Big guns and bad-asses. (Yawn.) And instead of trying to actually scare us with the aliens, the director uses buckets and buckets of blood that are supposed to provide us with the horror. Remember how claustrophobic the first movie was? How about the sense of helplessness in the second movie, or the desperation in the third? THAT's horror. It gets under your skin, not all over your clothes. Each of the Alien movies set out to reset the standard of movies of its type, and each one -- including Alien 3 -- did so. Resurrection is just a hodgepodge of the main elements of the previous films, but done much less successfully than the others. Even if you don't compare this movie to the other three, it's still a failure, because it's nearly impossible to care for any of the characters. No one acts human, and only half of them ARE human. Do yourself a favor: if you love the Alien series, skip this one. Play the Highlander 2 game and pretend like it doesn't even exist.
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Summary: Ellen Riply is reborn. But do we really care?
Review: It's rather odd that Sigourney Weaver returned to play Ripley in a fourth (and perhaps final) Alien film.The movie...well what can I say about it? It's pretty predictable, a blend of horror and science fiction that sometimes works and sometimes doesn;t.An improvement over Alien 3? Yes. But not in keeping with the first two films.
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Summary: Don't believe the Hype...
Review: Let me start off with - Go buy the 4 DVD collection instead of buying the singles. This series has to be the one of the best science fiction trilogies ever. Number 4 was pushing it a bit, although the film is good. Alien3 is by far the best movie in the series. The birth of the alien from the dog along with the cremation of Newt and Hicks is one of the most intense seens ever. In terms of the even numbered action films, the director's uncut version is the best one of the series.
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Summary: R.I.P. Ripley
Review: Sigourney Weaver is, as ever, marvellous, and obviously having quite a time playing the post-Ripley clone with alien DNA in this sequel. But overall, "Alien Resurrection" is an exercise in ponderous style that ultimately doesn't even seem too stylish. Darius Khondji's studied, heavily textured cinematography is stunning, and certainly a technical marvel, but it makes the whole movie seem as though it's been preserved in amber. This leaden artificiality-- which goes for Jeunet's direction as a whole-- leaves the film with little emotional force and, after a point, little point in continuing. Sure, since Ripley's dead anyway, this film is freed by the "alienation effect" from having to be true to its predecessors, and it seems to be trying to function like a Greek satyr play to the serious trilogy it follows. The over-the-top performances from Hedaya and Freeman give the film some sparks of pleasure; but the pirate crew is almost universally unendurable, as is the poor schmuck with an alien fetus inside him. And what in the name of god is the subtext in nuking subSaharan Africa?: it would seem that keeping the aliens from landing on earth has cost a couple of billion lives anyway. Perhaps "Alien Resurrection" is trying to be a live-action anime film, but that is hardly a worthy idea to follow the greatness of "Alien" and "Aliens." One has to respect the fact that Hollywood itself respected the series enough to recruit artists like Jeunet and Khondji to work on this project; but for whatever reasons, the results are considerably less than one would hope for.
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Summary: Just another ok action movie
Review: Well I havent seen any of the alien movies and this one was the first and it felt like an action movie It Has nothing to do with aline's Its even a Cheap Action movie The problem with this movie is the story and the script they were bad well i liked the orange color that was every where in the movie but the effects were bad realy bad i mean i felt like there were two kaind of aliens in this movie the ruber ones and the computer ones .. and why are the aline's head seams like a balloon full of yellow stuff !
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Summary: Great Movie but Winnona doesn't fit the role
Review: Good movie better then Alien 3 and just as good as Alien but not in story line wise. Alien was to dark that was its only falter. The cast was pretty good except for Winnona. She tried to fit in but it just didn't work out and making her swear was a terrible idea she doesn't look right swearing. I like Winnona but not in this movie. The special effects were great like in the other ones story line faltered a little but they picked it up again. A Buyer.
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