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Alien Resurrection
1997
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 |
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| Director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Genres | Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Alien Resurrection
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 | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 15 May 2000 Production year: 1997 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (5)
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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.
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"...ALIEN RESURRECTION has an eerie, grunge look....Fierce, beautiful and sardonic, Ms. Weaver makes an impressive linchpin for this series..."
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13 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Forget It's An Alien Sequel
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.
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Most recent members' review
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Could have been worse, I suppose
The idea of hiring an interesting director (Jean-Pierre Jenoit) to make the fourth instalment in the Alien franchise was a promising one. As a “gimmick” I prefer it to, say, 3-D or an Alien prequel (Ripley as a child discovers strange pod-like plants growing in the cellar of her house…). However Jenoit’s main contribution seems to be his affection for “eccentric actors” -- the film is littered with gargoyles: Brad Dourif, Ron Pearlman, Dan Hedaya (Jenoit can’t resist showing us the tufts of hair that sprout from Hedaya’s back), J.T. Freeman (who has the best death scene) and Jenoit regular Dominique Pinon. Who would have thought so many oddballs would be found co-habiting in space? Other than this, it is business as usual (plot-wise) and action sequences are not really Jenoit’s strength. Worse, the script by Josh Whedon is littered with cute one-liners (“Hey, I thought you were dead” “I get that a lot”) that are totally out of character and give the proceedings a jokey ambience that does nothing except elicit groans from the audience and undermine all hopes of suspense.
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News and features
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Weaver opts out of Alien prequel
- 01 Jul 2009
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
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Alien Resurrection
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....
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