Alien Resurrection

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    Alien Resurrection
    1997

    Synopsis

    Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

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    Cast

    • Sigourney WeaverRipley 8
    • Winona RyderAnnalee Call
    • Dominique PinonDom Vriess
    • Ron PerlmanRon Johner
    • Gary DourdanGary Christie
    • Michael WincottFrank Elgyn
    • Kim FlowersSabra Hillard
    • Dan HedayaGen. Martin Allahandro Carlos Perez
    • J.E. FreemanDr. Mason Wren
    • Brad DourifDr. Jonathan Gediman

    Recommendations

    • 83

      Entertainment Weekly

      By rocketing ahead 200 years from the previous film and jiggering the story cleverly (with a script by Toy Story coscreenwriter Joss Whedon as late-'90s wiseacreish as Alien3 was early-'90s portentous) to create a Ripley reconstructed through a mix of human and alien DNA, Alien Resurrection power-kicks the whole definition of the Horrifying Other into a fresh, deep, exhilaratingly thoughtful, millennium-sensitive direction. [5 Dec 1997, p. 47]
    • 75

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      Jeunet manages a terrific pass in an extended underwater sequence, but, beyond that, he runs out of ideas as we run out of patience.
    • 70

      Dallas Observer

      Weaver is able to take a schlock conception and turn it into a tour de force. Sky-high and straight-backed, she's imperiously graceful in this film; at times she resembles Martha Graham in the swooping, lyrical severity of her movements.
    • 70

      Film.com

      So campy that it almost plays like a sendup of the series. It is to Alien what "The Bride of Frankenstein" was to other 1930s Frankenstein movies, and it even shares some of the same themes.
    • 70

      Newsweek

      Under the reins of Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen"), the Alien franchise has lost none of its taste for acid-spewing, flesh-impaling, entrail-dripping gore.
    • 67

      Austin Chronicle

      Weaver essays the new hotmama Ripley with wry, good humor -- you can tell she's having a ball playing this unstoppable die-cast she-wolf.
    • 50

      Christian Science Monitor

      Heavy on violence and special effects, light on everything else.
    • 50

      Film Threat

      Sigourney gets some good "Rambo" lines, but about halfway through the film her alien super powers go dormant.

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