Alien Resurrection

R

Released Nov 26, 1997

1 hr. 49 min.

Sci-Fi

Horror

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54%

87 Reviews

Tomatometer

39%

250,000+ Ratings

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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

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.

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Gorptholemew T

🍀 4.8/10 I actually knew a guy who was just like the surgeon in here he really wanted to fuck the Xenomorphs. I love the cast here everybody does a really good job it's also really cool to see Winona Ryder in here. I feel like she's one of those actors where you don't see her very often but once you do she always has a nice presence. Although I feel as if this movie is a little stretched out like the pacing is OK, but there's certain things that are a bit dragged on which I guess is just expected from films like this (jurassic Park sequels) cough, cough. And then that's some pretty good sequences, but very unneeded sequel but compared to aliens three this is Citizen Kane. Grade C+

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/16/24

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g j

A much maligned and widely misunderstood piece of cinema that perhaps deservedly (maybe even intentionally) rubbed people the wrong way. Its very similar in themes and content to that presented more than a decade later in Cabin in the Woods, which Whedon produced. You weren't meant to take this literally. Its a post-modernist critique of the Hollywood blockbuster and the increasingly serialised and soulless nature of big budget franchises with their endless remakes and sequels. It proved to be extremely prescient. The "far future" of the Alien universe is predicted to be bleak, commoditised, soulless, generic and increasingly silly. The film opens with a xenomorph mouth that turns out just to be a fly swatted on a windscreen, showing us how commodification has essentially robbed Alien of its gravitas, uniqueness or ability to evoke fear - turning it into something mundane and beneath notice. The plot involves corporate hacks and mercenaries literally scraping the bottom of the barrel for any last dregs of the Alien that can be exploited for money. Ripley 8 looks on a series of failed abominations resulting from desperate attempts to resurrect the once legitimate Alien films, realising that she herself is just the next cash cow. And at the end, yes, you were meant to find the Newborn pathetic. That's the whole point.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/27/24

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Graham S

I remembered this being so much worse than it was… still not amazing but an interesting addition.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/15/24

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NiB Y

A worse version of Aliens. Hey at least there's a happy ending, kind of.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/10/24

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C A

I don't understand all the hate on this one. It's fun, campy and aliens. What more can you expect.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/04/24

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Pedro Antonio O

Esse é um pouco melhor que o primeiro mas mesmo assim tem coisas chatas para caramba

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/03/24

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Director

Sigourney Weaver

Lt. Ellen Ripley

Winona Ryder

Annalee Call

Ron Perlman

Johner

Dominique Pinon

Chief Mechanic Vreiss

Michael Wincott

Captain Elgyn

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Peter Travers

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Alien Resurrection is juiced by the fresh thinking of visionary French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet...

May 14, 2019

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David Ansen

Newsweek

The franchise has lost none of its taste for acid-spewing, flesh-impaling, entrail-dripping gore. But the tone has changed...If this is your cup of slime, this jauntily gruesome installment won't disappoint.

Mar 5, 2018

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Mike Clark

USA Today

With the great Darius Khondji (Seven, Evita) photographing, Resurrection looks stylishly decayed, but it echoes Alien3 by failing to realize how much the first two series entries benefited from character-driven stories.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jan 9, 2018

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Don Shanahan

Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast

The subversiveness adds to ballsy flair that keeps this one fun.

Mar 23, 2024

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Brian Rowe

InSession Film

Alien: Resurrection has its moments of weirdness and creativity, but it’s mostly just a throwaway film that didn’t need to be made.

May 3, 2023

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Dan DiNicola

The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)

Not as accomplished as [Aliens], but a vast improvement over the third entry. More a series of horrific rides than a work with emotional resonance.

Rated: B

Jan 10, 2023

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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
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
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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