Alien Resurrection

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Alien Resurrection

R

Released Nov 26, 1997

1h 49m

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Horror

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Two hundred years have passed since Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) died on Fiorina 161. Aboard the medical research vessel USM Auriga, a team of scientists clone Ripley from her extracted DNA and removes the alien Queen embryo which was growing inside her at the time of her death.

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Critics Consensus

While Sigourney Weaver's feral performance as a resurrected Ripley restores some fun to the Alien franchise, the acid blood running through this fourth entry's veins corrodes whatever emotional investment audiences had left.

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David Hunter

The Hollywood Reporter

Alien Resurrection checks in with enough slime, gore and scary monster-flick moments to satisfy undemanding audiences. But it's an ugly, animated corpse of a movie stitched together from the other three films in the series.

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Jay Carr

Boston Globe

[A] cold but sufficiently nightmarish and high-powered proof that there's life in the old franchise yet.

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Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

The sardonic bits work, but there's none of the old grandeur and depth, and not much horror either. The smell of evil is missing.

Aug 7, 2024

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

You've got to give Alien Resurrection some credit: it takes some big swings.

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 29, 2025

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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

Too weird, wet and horny to be widely accepted, Alien Resurrection nevertheless captures Jeunet's unique stuff, Whedon's trademark quips, and brings its own flavour to the Alien franchise

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 23, 2025

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Stephen A. Russell

Orion's Shoulder (Substack)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s otherwise truly pathetic crash and burn of the xenomorph-driven franchise.

Mar 6, 2025

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Charlie M

Dumb fun that’s all. Not a good movie but a more enjoyable watch than the previous entry. Some genuinely fun scenes.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/02/25

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Matthew M

Watching Alien Resurrection is like showing up to a classy wine tasting only to discover they’re serving Dr Pepper spiked with tequila. The film begins with the bold idea of cloning Ripley for the eighth time, because clearly, after dying in Alien 3, what she really needed was a comeback tour featuring acid blood and basketball tricks. The cast is a fever dream: • Ron Perlman plays a space pirate who looks like he wandered in from Beauty and the Beast and refused to leave. • Winona Ryder is a robot pretending to be human pretending to be in a good movie. The aliens themselves are confused. Sometimes they’re the past alien franchise killing machines, other times they’re adorable puppies who just want attention in a weird erotic way. By the time the infamous human-alien hybrid waddles on screen- a pale, big-eyed monstrosity that looks like a skeleton baby made of Play-Doh—you can feel the film series quietly drafting its own resignation letter. Overall it is a dull film that seems like a remake of the first alien film but with really poor acting and some lines are entertaining but does not cut it.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/29/25

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Zaraki K

i dont understand the critics. this is among the best alien thriller in the whole franchise.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/25/25

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A R

Watchable, I hope one day some one retcon the story to something better than what we got.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/19/25

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CaptainBoulder T

This movie is so bad, if you ever wanna watch the alien franchise please skip this one it'll ruin the whole thing

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/19/25

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Ryan H.

A solid cast but pretty tacky acting and a strange story about the Corporation cloning Ripley to bring back the queen womb, hunting aliens must be in her DNA. I enjoyed the irony of Ripley being a mother but it’s time to hang up her character.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/19/25

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Synopsis

Two hundred years have passed since Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) died on Fiorina 161. Aboard the medical research vessel USM Auriga, a team of scientists clone Ripley from her extracted DNA and removes the alien Queen embryo which was growing inside her at the time of her death.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Producer: Bill Badalato, Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Screenwriter: Joss Whedon
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox, Brandywine Productions
Rating: R (Grotesque Images|Gore|Language|Strong Sci-Fi Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 26, 1997, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $47.7M
Runtime: 1h 49m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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