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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Trevor K

This movie is so bad it actively brings down the rest of the franchise, if I could give a worse rating……I would. Everyone’s performance, no matter how talented all involved are was just downright horrible. Especially Sigourney Weaver’s “Autism” performance is just insanely awful. Do yourself a favor act like this movie was never made.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/22/25

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Ryan H

The tone is just too goofy & comedic. While it has great actors & great sequences, as a whole, it leaves much to be desired.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

07/20/25

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Hans F.

Finished Alien: Resurrection. The worse one so far for me. It’s teeming with uninteresting characters with no depth, and even this Ripley clone really just feels like a shell of the original. There one kinda cool underwater scene but overall this is even more of a step down for the series. 3/10

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/11/25

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Audience Member

Honestly a shame to give such a poor rating on a series that I strongly enjoy. But genuinely the worst of the whole franchise. It’s not that the premise was *that* bad, but the execution was horrible. *spoiler* Nearly the entire cast is unbearable, and since Ripley is not even truly Ripley anymore, our main lead is just bizarre and not right. At times this movie is just downright disturbing. The only good thing is that the visual effects strongly improved since Alien 3. I was debating not finishing this film, but I definitely wouldn’t ever bother to watch it again.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/09/25

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M B

Great ideas and cast but totally and utterly twisted. Most deranged Alien movie but good enough still!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/06/25

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Joe H.

I’m a huge Alien franchise movie fan so it’ll automatically rate high with me and it’s an older movie so it’s a classic to me.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/06/25

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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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