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Summary: Terrible sequel to ALIEN. I really didn't care for this one.
Review: I preferred the movie ALIEN to all of the sequels. I thought the second movie in the series was pretty good, but the third movie (set in a "prison planet") looked depressing and I passed on it. This one (4th in series) came on TV, so I decided to give it a chance. BIG MISTAKE! I liked the beginning for the most part, interesting characters, Sigourney Weaver playing her part well, etc. The second half of the movie had way too much gore and little story development. Yeah, there were some surprises in the story, but really this turns into a lousy movie. REALLY lousy! The final part with the grotesque, newly-born creature was both unnecessary and totally awful to witness, just an excuse for more killing and nasty special effects. I couldn't wait for this movie to end, maybe just to say I endured watching it? Please, let this be the last spin-off of ALIEN. Please!
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Summary: best of the alienjs
Review: this gory special effects filled sequel is gut wrenching its amazing i love it its better than aliens thev new characters are cool the endings alot better than 3
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Summary: Alien Resurrection (1997)
Review: Sigourney Weaver again returns as RIPLEY in this fourth Alien installment that is without a doubt, a major comeback. Only 200 years after RIPLEY's untimely death in the last film, she is brought back from the dead, curtesy to cloning. Once she is cloned, the scientists make a big mistake by removing the alien from RIPLEY. She finally awakes. The RIPLEY that U C here isn't the RIPLEY that U remember. This is a new and improved RIPLEY. No, she's still the same in the sense that she's still human and has the memories of what had happenedin the first three films. What makes her new is that she carries the alien's characteristics: she has the speed of an alien, her human blood burns like acid, and she has the powerful sense of smell like an alien. By her being half of the hideous creature, U all think that RIPLEY is now a good character gone bad. Wrong. RIPLEY is the solution 2 getting everybody out of the mess in this final installment. Co-starring is Winona Ryder as CALL, the untrusting android, who later befriends RIPLEY. The bad deed 4 this one involves the scientists getting the Queen Alien 2 mate with RIPLEY. They have given the queen a drug that has caused it 2 develop a human reproductive system. The queen gives birth 2 a baby that is half human and half alien. RIPLEY, with the help o her new friends, destroy all the aliens. RIPLEY the destroys the alien/human, bringing this masterpiece 2 a close. I personally think that this one should've never been made. But it is a huge improvement over the last film. This is a must-C sequel.
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Summary: Better than expected.
Review: I had poor expectations for this film after I watched, some time ago, Alien 3. However I must say that this movie still managed to scare me and keep me interested. Not as good as Alien 2, but better than 3. My only, small, complain is that after 200 years the technology hasn't progressed at all (perhaps, like Star Trek, human civilization has reached a state of high but static technological development). I believe that there is still life for a sequel to this series. In all four movies no explanation or reference of any kind was given regarding the alien ship and it's origin from where the eggs were found. Perhaps a sequel that will make some kind of contact with that alien specie so that some explanation can be given to what, why, where and when of the eggs. Overall: VERY GOOD.
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Summary: The best Alien ever
Review: The best Alien produced so far. On par with Aliens. Don't listen to most of the comments posted on here: just verbal diarrhoea from "want-a-be" directors. i can hardly wait for the next movie. Sigourney Weaver is one of my favorite actors.
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Summary: Where's the love for the Baby Xenomorph?
Review: Certainly the weakest in the Aliens series, Alien:Resurrection is not a superb Aliens movie, but it is an effective little horror film on its own terms with some of the best lines in the series and startling imagery. Despite what you've heard, if you're not expecting the genius of the first two installments of the Aliens films, then you'll have a good time. Helmed by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, "Resurrection" was presented with two seemingly insurmountable problems:
1)Find some way to resurrect Ellen Ripley, the series' tough protagonist who had flung herself (and the alien Queen inside her) into a furnace of molten magma in the third installment; and
2)Contend with massive disaffection among the Aliens fanbase, which had been disappointed with Aliens3 (another unfairly reviled movie, a stylish slice of pure grue by the then relatively unknown David Fincher). The answer to #1 was ingenious, and makes for the most interesting idea of the entire series: Ripley is cloned by scientists on an isolated military biowarfare facility located on the fringe of regulated space. This 'resurrection' takes place roughly 200 years after the incidents on the Fiorina "Fury" 21 Prison Planet which led to Ripley's death. The answer to #2: put director Jeunet at the reins of the movie. Ironically, Jeunet is very much like David Fincher: a consummate, if quirky, stylist, more interested in atmosphere than cogent plot (see, for instance, the intriguing "City of Lost Children"). The result is a decidedly well-paced and atmospheric little horror film, but a movie that feels oddly out of place in the larger Aliens universe. Is it enjoyable, though? Absolutely: this is my fourth time watching the film, and it's sleek, stylish, gripping, and a perfectly good horror movie in its own right. And why should movies in a franchise lumber along doing the same thing? Ripley is the eighth clone attempted by the geneticists at the Auriga facility; we see her previous seven 'sisters', all horribly failed attempts, in a harrowing sequence later in the film. The scientists used a sample of Ellen Ripley's blood and were, naturally, trying to extricate the alien Queen; in the process they got Ripley as well, though the new Ripley has elements of the alien Xenomorph in her. She's tougher, for one; she retains little of her previous memories; her blood is highly acidic; she's got a tough new attitude to go with her tough leather vest; and she's a mean basketball player! You don't really need a plot, do you? As Ripley confides to a scientist: "She's a Queen---she'll get out, she'll breed, they'll hatch, you'll die." Just after a freighter of space pirates with a cargo of human victims in deep freeze dock with the station, the aliens get loose, the base gets overrun, and the survivors---headed up by the amoral and conflicted Ripley---have to get out alive. It's a spare plotline to be sure, but a production this stylish can take some risks. The lighting, look, and atmosphere pays homage to Ridley Scott: everything is decayed, rusting, steaming, and dark. The aliens themselves are nasty as always, particularly in the sequences when they are tortured by---and ultimately torture---the leering, lisping chief scientist, played smirkingly by Brad Dourif. Didn't I start by saying how odd it is that one of the most vilified aliens films has some of the best lines in the whole series? It's true. Try this one, when Ripley tries to explain what's going to happen to a terrified human host: RIPLEY: "You've got a monster in you...a nasty one...in a few hours it's going to rip its way out through your ribcage, and you're going to die."
HOST: "Who are you?"
RIPLEY: (leering): "I'm the Monster's mother." Sigourney Weaver, one of the most underappreciated actresses of our generation, gets all the great lines and delivers them pitch perfectly: when Ron Perelman's awful character Johner asks her "I thought you were dead", Ripley responds "I get that a lot." And when Call (played adroitly and appealingly by Winona Ryder) reveals the nature of her private mission to the station is due to her own programming, Ripley responds "you're programmed to be an a**hole? You're the new a**hole model they're putting out?" The one-liners in Aliens:Resurrection are nearly on par with Aliens. Best of all, veteran character actor Dourif gets one of the sickest movie lines of all time, taken in context: he burbles "You're a be-OOO-tiful butterfly" to the hideous, warbling, misshapen alien Baby Xenomorph, instants before it clobbers him. As for acting, this is clearly Sigourney Weaver's baby, and she carries off the Ripley role perfectly, which is no surprise: she's as comfortable in Ripley's skin as Clint Eastwood was in his Man with No Name role, and her strength gives a sometimes wobbly film a strong foundation. As for the other characters, Aliens 4's biggest weakness is mixed bag of actors: Ryder, Dourif, and J.E. Freeman (the prattling Dr. Wren, who dies horribly) are all strong; Ron Perelman is merely annoying; and the rest of the pirate crew is irritating and
ultimately forgettable. The usually superb Michael Wincott (Captain Elgyn), who did a wonderful turn as the Keeper of Monte Cristo in "The Count of Monte Cristo", is thrown away in a thankless role, and the great Dan Hedaya's performance as General Perez is too goofy, and too horrible, to rate mention. That said, if you take Aliens4 on its own terms, it's a nice little nugget of pure science fiction horror; there are some wonderful visual images, particularly of the 'research' on the aliens and the Queen Alien pregnancy. If you don't expect another "Aliens", if you're willing to leave your pre-conceptions at the door, and if you force yourself not to feel too sorry for the little puppy-dog eyed Baby Xeno, then you should give #4 a try. You'll be glad you did.
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Summary: The first and second set the bar too high for part IV!
Review: It's not as tense as "Alien".
It's not as thrilling as "Aliens".
It's not as lifeless as "Alien3".
It's a foregone conclusion that this film should never be compared to the first two sci-fi benchmarks. "Alien: Resurrection" is, basically, a blend of its predecessors, allowing the returning Sigourney Weaver a chance to stretch her muscles, literally and figuratively. Her Ellen Ripley (cloned this time) is strong yet sympathetic (the latter quality shown in her feelings for her cloned "sisters" and her own alien "offspring"). Joss Whedon's script allows Weaver and Ron Perlman to exchange some interesting banter and sling zingers to other cast members as well. The film IS gorier than previous installments, making it an R-rated film that is definitely NOT family-friendly.
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Summary: Recognizing Joss Whedon's Work
Review: I really haven't been a big fan of the Alien movies, until I became a huge fan of Joss Whedon's previous work for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Toy Story, and Speed pictures. So, as a fan of Buffy and Angel TV series, I decided to give Alien Resurrection a chance, just for Joss Whedon. And found out that I enjoyed it. Now I know how Joss got the idea to resurrect Buffy in the dark season six episodes. Ellen Ripley had been been cloned with the alien queen still inside of her, so they took out the clone and killed it. Which is probably the most disturbing thing I have seen. For a sec there, I thought the baby bastard was going to attack the scientists or something. But no such luck. Well, the special effect aliens were great. Nuff said. If you are a fan of Joss Whedon of the Alien movies, I would say that you should add this to your collection.
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Summary: Will they be friends? You figure it out.
Review: H.R. Giger's original alien design had a certain elegance to it, an organic flow that was as weirdly beautiful as it was deadly. That aesthetic is gone by No. 4; the new aliens are slimier, but cruder and blunter in appearance, and their motives -- formerly for the purpose of procreating -- seem now to be simple mayhem and death. A later hybrid creature is just stupid looking -- basically a big skeleton with sad, puppy dog eyes. The best reason to watch this movie is Weaver, who does marvels with her role. She brings a distinctly feral attitude to the character, and the light in her eyes and the grin on her face can be downright unnerving at times. As for Winona Ryder -- let's face it. Shoplifter, sure. Space pirate and terrorist? Not a chance. From beginning to end, she remains unconvincing. The rest of the cast are two-dimensional at best. Blind military men, obsessed scientists, pirates on the edge of madness. No one strikes more than a single note with these characters, and I doubt you'll care if any of them live or die.
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Summary: 2.5 stars here. I wasn't buying it this time.
Review: Hey, I like 3 better than most critics. Did i just get tired, or just get lazy-crazy. I don't know but for me this was a good trilogy. I rented this once and never bought it. That is what i recommend. Rent it. See if you agree with the majority that loved it and gave it 4 or 5 stars. I was disappointed that people we thought had survived, didn't. That notion takes away from the first two movies in my opinion.
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