Alien Resurrection
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary DourdanDirector: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Studio: 20th Century Fox
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release: January 2nd 2007
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DVD Review
Perhaps these films are like the Star Trek movies: The even-numbered episodes are the best ones. Certainly this film (directed by French stylist Jean-Pierre Jeunet) is an improvement over Alien 3, with a script that breathes exciting new life into the franchise. This chapter is set even further in the future, where scientists on a space colony have cloned both the alien and Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), who died in Alien 3; in doing so, however, they've mixed alien DNA with Ripley's human chromosomes, which gives Ripley surprising power (and a bad attitude). A band of smugglers comes aboard only to discover the new race of aliens--and when the multi-mouthed melonheads get loose, no place is safe. But, on the plus side, they have Ripley as a guide to help them get out. Winona Ryder is on hand as the smugglers' most unlikely crew member (with a secret of her own), but this one is Sigourney's all the way. --Marshall Fine
User Reviews
Alien Resurrection with a happy end - Rating: 5/5
I like this movie very much is so different from the others, really i know maybe you will say this guy is wrong but is true. Every movie has its own history and expecific area. After 200 years o more they clon to ripley again but we have to honest some people like to see the same movies all the time with the same characteristics. These guys from alien were original to create something like this. Espero les guste porque a mi me encanta este movie.
"I'm the monster's mother" - Rating: 3/5
After momentarily forgetting the finale of the third movie - after raving about it in my Amazon review - I was looking forward to watching the 'final' Aliens movie (not taking into account the Alien vs Predator movies here). I definitely reckon the third movie was my favourite, but I'm still kinda disappointed about Resurrection.
I'm still in two minds about it. I really think they should have ended it with Aliens 3 - I won't go into how they brought back Ripley, but I think, personally, that it was a cop out, and seemed too easy. I'm still not sure I understand how the alien came back either, it just seemed too easy.
Apart from that, the rest of the movie was great. That's my main gripe with the movie. I still didn't like Ripley's character in this - I didn't like her in the first movie either, but her character was developed in two and three. In this, they seem to have reverted her back to her original portrayal. Although my heart did go out to her at the end. Wow. What an ending.
The cast in this was excellent. Winona Ryder was an excellent casting choice, as was Ron Perlman (my birthday twin), and although it bugged me for ages where I knew Michael Wincott from (Robin Hood Princes of Thieves people), he was brilliant too, if not a little cocky.
This has some of the best scenes in all of the movies. Ron Perlman hanging just by his legs on a ladder - ouch. And the underwater scenes, in which all actors were alleged to have trouble (including Winona, who has a fear of water), were just amazing. I was holding my breath quite a lot. For some reason, gimme water in a movie, and I love it. But I hate being in it myself. (I must have drowned in a previous life.)
Apart from the disappointment of the way Ripley was brought back, I still did enjoy Resurrection, although it did dampen my excitement a little bit. They could have found a better way to bring her back, or not done the movie at all. My favourites of the Alien series has been part 3 and this, and I'd definitely rewatch those two. This was made in 1997, surely it's time to revisit it? Would Sigourney Weaver come back now? I doubt it! It's a very open ending as well, which left me not feeling empty, but relatively satisfied. It definitely rounds off the series nicely.
Slimy Reptillian Creature - Rating: 5/5
Alien Resurrection DVD
ALIEN RESURRECTION has a host of great lines, many of them containing words that makes it impossible to repeat here. But you have to love an exchange like:
Johner: So, I hear you, like, ran into these things before?
Ripley: Yeah.
Johner: What did you do?
Ripley: I died.
Or when Ripley is talking to someone who has had one of the aliens implanted in his chest for gestation:
Purvis: WHAT'S [expletive deleted] INSIDE ME?
Ripley: There's a monster in your chest. These guys hijacked your ship, and they sold your cryo-tube to this... human, and he put an alien inside of you. It's a really nasty one. And in a few hours, it's gonna burst its way through your rib cage, and you're gonna die. Any questions?
Purvis: Who are you?
Ripley: I'm the monster's mother.
Or this great line:
Distephano: I thought you were dead!
Ripley: Yeah, I get that a lot.
This was a good movie -- but the writers missed a great opportunity to present science fiction with a way-things-ought-to-be theme. Life as it SHOULD and OUGHT to be.
These alien creatures attack and begin killing members of the crew on a space ship, along with some guests in transit and Officer Ripley. Ripley takes charge, and leads everyone in the effort to simply kill these creatures. In the end Ripley and her gang of cowboys prevailed, and all the creatures were dead (or are they?).
The writers overlooked an excellent chance to demonstrate how life SHOULD be. When Ripley and her compatriots were first attacked, they should have asked themselves, "Why do these creatures hate us?" And then they should have spent a significant amount of time examining their own behavior, to determine what faults or misdeeds of theirs had provoked the creatures to attack and kill them. Next, Ripley and her bunch should have sought to form a coalition of some sort, dealing with a space equivalent of the United Nations, to pass resolutions against the creatures' violent behavior -- not against the creatures themselves, mind you, but only condemning their behavior. Then, they should have sent inspectors to the creatures, to monitor compliance with the resolutions. If the creatures had continued killing then, by golly, they could have given those inspectors more time.
THAT is how this story should have played out -- with the creatures living according to their own cultural/religious rules, and everyone else having to accommodate the fact that the creatures simply are going to kill/terrorize people from time to time. That is the creatures' culture, and it was up to the others to understand, appreciate and accept that culture. The sad fact is, Ripley and her people did not make enough of an effort to appease these creatures. They showed absolutely NO signs of tolerance, diversity, inclusion or compassion. Well, that's not wholly true. That character portrayed by Brad Dorff was extremely compassionate in his last scene toward the end of the movie, praising the creature as "beautiful, beautiful, beautiful" just before the thing bit off his head.
If you've watched the first three you have to see this one.
Recommended for fans of Sigourney Weaver, Alien, and the slimy reptilian creature.
Gunner 2007
Not that interesting. - Rating: 3/5
I got this movie just because I needed it to complete my collection of the alien movies. Its not that great. It's just about as boring as Aliens 3, maybe even a little more. I give it a 3 just because its part of the original collection, but I would not buy this movie unless you need it for your collection.
This movie was just an attempt to push the alien series into one last film. Compared to Alien and Aliens, this movie is rather dumb. I think it may be the worst film in the collection, even worse then Alien 3.
I never liked this movie.
Great Movie - Rating: 4/5
A must own for any collector great special effects,acting,a pleasure to watch more than once...Enjoy.
