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Alien Resurrection marks a slight improvement over its predecessor, but still lacks the emotional stakes that helped make the franchise's first two entries sci-fi/horror classics. Read critic reviews
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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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Rating: R (Grotesque Images|Gore|Language|Strong Sci-Fi Violence)
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Genre: Sci-fi, Horror
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Original Language: English
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Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Producer: Bill Badalato, Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
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Writer: Joss Whedon
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Box Office (Gross USA): $47.7M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox, Brandywine Productions
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Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
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Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)
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Audience Reviews for Alien Resurrection
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Alien 3 is a mess, but it's nothing compared to the abomination that is Alien: Resurrection. One wouldn't be wrong by saying that there isn't one good thing to say about this film. Sure, everything isn't horrible, but just about 95 percent of it is. Last time I checked, that's not a good percentage. Resurrection is a shell of the films that made this series great in the first place. To start, the film's tone is all over the place. It feels like the script wants the film to take a lighter direction but the direction does exactly the opposite. You have characters that don't feel like real human beings and always seem to overact to the conflict, why the conflict itself is overtly gory and grotesque, just for the sake of being gory and grotesque. I'm still not sure what audience this film was trying to appeal to. It's neither a scary thriller like the first film nor an exciting action film like Aliens. But that's not for lack of trying. Who thought it would be a good idea to have Ripley come back as an uncomfortably sexualized version of herself without any explanation as to why she was cloned in the first place? After the semi-heroic act at the end of Alien 3, there's absolutely no need to go back and recycle the same characters. And really, what was the point of bringing back Ripley if she wasn't even going to have the qualities we love about Weaver's portrayal. This does way more to hurt Ripley's legacy than it does to amplify it. Written by Joss Whedon and directed by the guy who made Amelie makes this film more puzzling than its predecessor. We know there were severe behind the scenes issues with Fincher's Alien 3, but who could have possibly greenlit Resurrection? There's nothing redeemable about this film. And I mean nothing. Great actors and actresses like Ron Perlman and Winona Ryder give less than stellar performances (and that's generous). Even Weaver, who has always been the light of this franchise was just passible as Ripley. Heck, the Xenomorphs themselves were pathetic. The special effects looked off, they were kept up in cages for most of the film, and the hybrid alien at the end? My god it was all-time awful. -Tone is all over the place -Script and direction take the film to separate places -Performances 2.9/10
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Ellen Ripley as a human/alien hybrid? Okay, I'm listening. Script lacking any real point other than to escape getting killed by aliens. Yeah, you're losing me. Oh and Brad Dourif's character really is just off putting and terrible. Decent amount of "alien action" saves the flat dialogue from a lower score with this one. Pretty surprising seeing as that Joss Whedon wrote this one.
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While the first three "Alien" films aimed for something artistic, "resurrection" is decidedly simple, going for a more "popcorn" aesthetic. Thankfully, it does a good job at that.
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There always comes a point when a franchise is taken too far and this represents the "death" of Alien within a resurrection. The cast seems to be cashing in on the opportunity and mailing in performances. There is a great line potentially here about Winona Ryder's robotic performance but to say too much would give always the ending for the one person who hasn't seen it that would even bother to see it.
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