Alien Resurrection

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Alien Resurrection

R

Released Nov 26, 1997

1h 49m

Sci-Fi

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

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.

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Casey Chong

Casey's Movie Mania

[A] missed opportunity.

Rated: 2.5/5

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Marshall Fine

Journal News (Westchester, NY)

Let's see: It's a big improvement over No. 3, not as good as No. 2 but on a par with or slightly better than No. 1. Anything else you want to know about Alien Resurrection?

Rated: 3.5/4

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Bob Stephens

San Francisco Examiner

A wonderfully contradictory film -- it's trashy, brutal, viciously ironic and highly imaginative.

Rated: 3/4

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Audience Member

Another decent entry in the Alien franchise. It does start to feel a little predictable by now and I feel like some of the characters are only there to die. I did enjoy seeing Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder’s characters interact with one another. Other than that, I’d say it was just okay.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/18/24

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Tuomo R

This movie was so horrible 🤣! I love it.. and it's funny how Ripley is just sexualising everyone in the movie, even the newborn. And the chestburster scene where the guy got shot 80 times and proceeded to kill the shooter with the use of his chestburster and everyone started spraying their guns at them is just so bad it's hilarious asf. The movie is so good.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/03/24

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Hunter b

This is the worst movie I've ever seen.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/30/24

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3D W

It’s fun. Ripley is interesting, and I really like the ‘villains’.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/21/24

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OLGA O

Not Bad Not Bad, But Not Too good Y of the worst alien movies is like the Ghostbusters: Afterlife of Alien

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/21/24

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Audience Member

A sad ending to the Alien saga, Resurrection is filled with unlikable characters that deliver uninspired dialogue. Sigourney Weaver is the only redeeming element.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/05/24

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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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