Two hundred years after Ripley, a group of scientists clone her and the parasitic alien... Anxious to test out their new weapon the scientists abduct a crew.... The alien escapes and takes control of the spacecraft with only 'Ripley' and a team of smugglers standing between it and Earth. Read more
| Starring | Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dan Hedaya |
|---|---|
| Director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Genres | Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Two hundred years after Ripley, a group of scientists clone her and the parasitic alien... Anxious to test out their new weapon the scientists abduct a crew.... The alien escapes and takes control of the spacecraft with only 'Ripley' and a team of smugglers standing between it and Earth.
| Starring | Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dan Hedaya, J.E. Freeman, Brad Dourif, Michael Wincott |
|---|---|
| Director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 44 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 15 May 2000 Production year: 1997 |
| Format | DVD |
This enticing helter-skelter ride through space-opera clichés cleverly conceals the fact that there really isn't anything new of note here, just neat tangents off the basic Alien concept as nasty extraterrestrials relentlessly stalk their human prey through a deserted spaceship. Sigourney Weaver's Ripley is cloned 200 years after the action of Alien 3 because she's carrying an alien queen foetus. French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's shock thrill ride showcases such scintillating set pieces as an underwater battle and a gallery of grotesque clones-gone-wrong. It's tense, mordantly funny, very graphic and bloody, and Weaver is on great form as the clone with some interesting alien influences on her personality.
"...ALIEN RESURRECTION has an eerie, grunge look....Fierce, beautiful and sardonic, Ms. Weaver makes an impressive linchpin for this series..."
Easily the worst film in the series however even though it sounds contradictory, it's actually worth a watch as a sci-fi film in it's own right. It's just a shame it's tarnishing the reputation of the first two by being associated with them. The effects are decent as is the ever-excellent Sigourney Weaver, but this film has a couple of comedy moments which in my opinion is pure blasphemy for a film part of the classic Alien franchise.
I was reliably informed that this was by far the runt of the litter but I have to disagree slightly. While it probably was the weakest of the alien quadrilogy, it wasn't as bad as I was lead to believe. I only really have two problems with AR. 1. Cloning Ripley tacky or what, and 2. The ending, where was it. Sorely disappointed at the lack of conclusion, did they have a power cut or something, or maybe the director phoned in sick one day and they couldn't be bothered to finish it. If this actually had an ending I definitely would have given it four stars and placed it above A3. As usual the effects are stunning and we see the alien learning and adapting to its environment much more in this offering. Good performances all round, Michael Wincott makes a fabulous badass as he did in The Crow. I was really enjoying this up til the supposed finale. But don't let this put you off, apart from this AR is yet another work of extra-terrestrial art.
Sigourney Weaver has ruled out a return to the Alien film franchise, insisting she's finished with director Ridley Scott's sci-fi blockbusters. Weaver's iconic character Ellen Ripley died in the third Alien film after battling a horrific space creature in three big-budget epics. She returned for 1997's Aliens Resurrection - but opted out of two Alien Vs Predator spin-offs. The actress wishes Scott well but insists it wouldn't be realistic for her to appear in a planned prequel. She tells... Read more