Alien: Resurrection
| release date | November 26 1997 |
| studio | 20th Century Fox |
| director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| writer | Joss Whedon |
| starring | Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman |
| rating | R |
| tagline | Witness the resurrection. |
| site | alien-movies.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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This movie was just an embarrassment to the Alien franchise. It had no scares unlike all the others. It just plain sucked. I was embarrassed to own this movie.
I dont know why but i kinda enjoyed this movie, i mean no where near as good as the 1st but ok.
If you want a stock shooter, then this is it.
I’m not agree with the reviews. I think it’s a good movie well directing with great plot and efx. I’m glad Jeunet did something different.
“Alien: Resurrection” sounds like a brilliant film before you watch it: from the director of “Amélie” and “The City of Lost Children”, from the writer of “Serenity” and “Firefly”, starring Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, and Michael Wincott alongside Sigourney Weaver. However, the film is nowhere near as good as you expect.
I will happily admit, I enjoy the director’s cut of “Alien
I don’t know whether to blame the Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, or Writer Josh Whedon, or 20th Century Fox – or if I should blame all three of them for for letting the ALIEN movie franchise reach this level of crap (please do not get me started on the Newborn – which is so far removed from H.R. Giger’s genius it should’ve never been in this film) ….. the actors; along with the set designs; were the only things to admire – but the graphic R-rating can’t save this poor excuse for a movie (shame on everyone involved for releasing this crap)!
The only reason to watch this film is Sigourney Weaver’s performance. I also enjoyed Ron Perlman. Winona Ryder was totally out of place in this movie. Some decent gore. Otherwise, a complete waste of time.
not a horrible movie like everyone claims it is, i found it very fun and entertaininng, the whole ripley being cloned isnt a genius idea, but a smart way to bring her back to the series i suppose.
overall a fun, non intellegent horror ride of a science fiction film that doesnt take itself seriously like the first couple did, and those will always be a favorite amungst people, but i did enjoy this
i saw this when i was wee lil lad back when it came out and still hated wat crap what was once a great film
I really didn’t hate this movie. Sure, the idea of Ripley having a heart for her wide forheaded “offspring” is a sad stretch for emotional writing. You can also add the cheapness of computer animation to the overall laziness of everybody involved. But I do love Ron Perlman (She’s severely fuckable ain’t she?”) and Brad Duriff is always a creepy sonofagun. Maybe I just have low expectations overall for sequels, or I find comfort in concepts I know, even if it’s lobotomized with a screwdriver into my brain.
Shame on you, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The first two movies are the only ones that count.
I think it was an ok way to keep on going with the saga; absolutely entertaining a bizarre.
I didn’t think the series could get any worse. I was dead wrong. What an aweful movie. This movie rilly stinks. I can’t believe they released this turkey. Did they actually look at the script. I,m not sure if they knew what they were looking at except the dollar sign. They keep releasing more movies like this the series will quickly dry up like well..
I don’t think this is the train wreck everybody makes it out to be , Fuck , the AVP movies were far worse. Sure, this is no Alien or Aliens but it was better than the very lacklustre Alien 3. It was surreal and bizarre , Winona was mis cast but this one had some decent scenes and loads of blood and gore. It was directed after all by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and if you have seen Delicatessen and City Of Lost Children then you should know what to expect. At least he tried to inject something different into it with his crazy styles. I Like
Not as good as the others but I enjoyed it alot.
Worst Alien movie ever. The only thing i like about it is Ron Pearlman, Brad Dourif and Sigourney Weaver.
i actualy liked this better than 3 good sequel!
The only thing that really freaked me out in this movie was the scene with the aliens swimming under the water. Apart from that….it was just confusing.
this movie sucks. it looks like a sci-fi channel original. 3 was better
Good Lord, it wasn’t THAT bad. The official review on here makes a Uwe Boll film sound like a masterpiece. It’s clearly an old juvenile review. Personally I thought this film was very entertaining, interesting to look at, and superior to Alien 3. It’s clearly not perfect in any way but a worth-while Hollywood installment.
I don’t know why so many hate on this movie, it’s not the best in the series, but it’s still a damn entertaining flick, despite it’s flaws. CG sucks, usually does, but the cast is great. Ron Pearlman & Brad Doriff automatically raise this flick up some. If you ain’t seen it in a while, give it another chance.
No…Just no. The only thing that was good in this was the Newborn and the first scene with the Aliens.
Very underrated flick that deviates so much from the other Alien movies (adding a lighter tone, more humour) but as a film in it’s own right it is quite a unique experience among the usual big budget hollywood scifi blockbusters.
This is because of the french influence on the film by fantastic director Jean Pierre Jeunet which some think hampered it but I disagree. It earned it a unique style and elevated it to match the strong directorial styles of the other Alien films.
If it weren’t for the stunning visuals, inventive gore sequences, creature effects (the Newborn is a stunning animatronic creature) and hauntingly romantic score I would like this movie alot less. But as it is there are many things going for it.
Favourite scenes: Newborn birth (utterly inspired!), Brad Dourif and imprisoned alien scene (f***ing tense), Ripley awakes (and yes there’s a Christ allegory in there somewhere), Ripley confronting her clones and the underwater scene.
There’s also a lesbian subtext in there with Ripley/Call, but I think you take the whole series as having this theme on sex/reproduction that runs all the way through it.
The last good movie of the Alien Saga but hopefully the Alien Prequel by Ridley Scott himself will add another worthy addition.
Alien Resurrection was intresting, i enjoyed the under water scene with the aliens it was done very well. I think this film gets alot of critcism and is considered a least favorite but i enjoyed it very much so.
Not half as bad as they say, but not even close to being good either.
The Official Score has it right, terrible movie. Until this came out, I thought it would be impossible to make a bad Alien film.
You know, this was the first movie by Jeunet that I ever saw. Since I’ve seen others, including ‘Amelie’ and ‘The City of Lost Children,’ and really enjoyed them. ‘Resurrection’ totally failed, but I don’t blame Jeunet.
I’ve heard from friends who love Joss Whedon that Fox tore his script apart and that’s why the movie was ruined, but I’m not so sure it could have ever been good. There are just so many blatant inconsistencies. I mean, I don’t demand realism from movies (in every ‘Alien’ film, the ships make sounds in space) but this was ridiculous.
I hate to beat the inconsistencies to death like the nerd I am when there is so much more wrong with the movie, but Hell, I got 5000 characters and I’m gonna use them. The plot from the very beginning of the movie makes absolutely no sense. Ripley’s DNA is cloned, she is gestated until she is about 45 years old for some reason, and then operated on to remove the Alien queen and breed it by the military. There are so many things wrong with this. Why would they need to clone Ripley? Why not just clone the queen? It’s not like their blood was fucking fused or something! We could clone them seperately NOW, much less like 400 years from now. And why does she have to be fully grown? If this made sense in the first place, why not just take it out of her in the fetal stage?
Next, the whole newborn thing is ridiculous. I’ve dealt with the whole gene splicing thing, but the queen having to “give birth” is just retarded. And the newborn itself? A “half-man-half-alien”? That’s what an alien already is! It is a creature that picks up different traits from its host species. Otherwise, it would negate the whole third movie, where the an alien develops speed and quadropedal locomotion by gestating inside a dog.
Alright, those are the biggest inconsistencies. Beyond that, the whole thing just seems over the top and silly with barely any real creative thought. Dialogue is bland and uninteresting. Ripley’s character is totally ruined by turning her into just a cold, sociopathic half-human, half-alien with acid blood. She isn’t sympathetic, and just leaves you wanting to see Weaver play the fiery, caring woman we have grown to love over three films. Ripley is unrelatable, Winona Ryder’s character is uninteresting, and the rest of the performances are characterized by mediocre acting and dry, predictable dialogue. Ultimately the only characters I ended up liking were those played by Ron Perlman and Dominique Pinon, who probably only work because of their strength as actors and experience working with Jeunet.
The aliens are kind of cool, but I thought the triple-jointed legs were silly and just continued the betrayal of the previous films. Plus, some of the death scenes were just absurd and gratuitous, such as the general pulling out part of his brain after being tooth-tongued and the guy being held to an impregnated man’s ribs so the chestburster comes through his head (although this might have been the most cathartic and exciting moment in the movie for me).
Ultimately, I couldn’t take the story seriously for a minute, I felt no sympathy for any of the characters, the plot and action didn’t keep me interested, and the movie was all the more repellent because of the way it repeatedly insulted a film saga I love so much. I’ve seen it again and again hoping to give it another chance or find something I might like, but it just never happens. I wouldn’t recommend watching it, but the only things to really be entertained by are Jeunet’s original direction and maybe seeing yet another appearance by one of my favorite movie monsters ever created. But overall, it seems more like an open mockery of possibly the best horror/sci-fi series ever produced and for me borders on unwatchable.
I change my mind Alien vs Predator is not the worst movie featuring Aliens, this movie is.
Just because it’s different doesn’t mean it’s bad. The AVP movies were far worse.
I enjoyed it
Well it was better than Alien 3.
Whoa, c’mon guys it was not THAT bad. It was better then Alien 3 by far and it was the 1st time we saw decent cgi aliens (the one in Alien 3 looked terrible).
I enjoyed it… maybe im the crazy one.
This was one of the most awful films in the Alien Series. Shame because it had alot of great actors/actress’s in it.
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The very first film I ever saw. Don’t know why there’s so many haters, I thought it was the best of its 4. Oh well,it is to me
A very fun movie, but apparently die hard Alien fans are not a fun-loving crowd. This is my second favorite of the quadrilogy, which is by no means a small feat.
100% agree with black shadow.Nothing else really to say!
This film is my least favorite in the original series, but that doesn’t mean I still don’t enjoy the living hell out of it! Yes, there are lots of weird moments, some pretty dumb even…but there’s lots of fantastic moments as well. The underwater chase being my favorite. The aliens looked BEAUTIFUL! The whole cloning of Ripley thing was probably not a good idea, and the idea of cloning her and somehow getting the alien queen is even more far fetched (how exactly do you explain that?), but it was still entertaining. The newborn wasn’t nearly as bad as people want to cry about either, but again, it didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Why would the queen suddenly produce an alien/human hybrid after birthing so many “normal” aliens during the first 3/4 of the film???
Oh well…I throw reason out the window for the sake of a fucking good time! Like any bastard child, there is still love for this movie.
What a 1/10. What the fuck is Bloody Disgusting Smoking? It isn’t no Aliens, but it’s still a good movie. It focused more on the Horror aspect. It created a creepy atmosphere for the viewer. Sigorney Weaver gave a creepy proformance and I liked the film. The aliens looked good and the scene where Ron Pearlman shot that spider killed me 8). It’s not great, but it’s good
total fail. wanna puke.
This is a childhood favorite film of mine…I loved it. I feel like it atleast deserved like a 2 star or maybe a 2 1/2…you gave friggin H2 a 3…I mean come on!
Goooood movie
It’s not really horrible, just a letdown. I kind of wish it had never been made but I guess it’s worth a watch if you try not to compare it to Alien or Aliens.
I don’t know if I like this move as much as I like my memories of going to see it. My friends and I were 16 and ditched school to spend the day sneaking in and out of movies all day long. Good times, ok movie.
this was just a stupid movie.
oh come on it wasn’t that bad! A enjoyable, gory sci-fi romp. Sure it’s no Alien or even Alien 3 for that matter but a good rental.
I hate this movie, definitely the worst in the series, is stupid, exaggerated, silly, and so on. An example of this is the scene of Aliens with Winona Ryder at the end of the movie.
as poor as the film can be and as much as the disappointing hype that surrounded it, i cant help but have a soft spot for it. i did enjoy it but i think that was more because i love the franchise so much.
It has more of a horror vibe to it that Alien 3 with some nice gore thrown in for good measure, and is definitely a lot more fun. Ya, of course it’s disappointing compared to the first two, but at least we got one more film of Ripley kicking ass.
It’s sad when a scary series turns into an action series later on (Resident Evil). The first Alien is one of the absolute best horrors EVER MADE.
This movie is simply the afterbirth. Worth watching once, it’s a little fun. I mean, I can’t help but love those aliens.
Two words for this movie: completely unnecessary
This is my second favourite Alien movie (the first Alien is my favourite) because I liked the acting and the storyline.
I’m watching it as i write this and it really is the worst in the series. I wish 20th Century Fox gave a shit about the fans and didn’t give this film the green light, it was never going to be any good. The ‘Newborn’ looks awful and it just takes away the whole ‘perfect specimen and predatory deadliness’ from the original Alien, it manages to kill the Alien queen all too easily with just one swipe of it’s hand. Also if this film is set 200 years or so after Alien 3, why does the ship they are on have almost the same design as the Nostromo? Winona Ryder should of never been casted and sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s not all bad though, there are a few good things the film offers; the scene where the aliens swim after the surviving members of the ‘betty’ crew looked pretty cool. The scene where Ripley discovers the room of failed clones 1-7 is quite gnarly and the designs are really well done.
Even though Sigourney Weaver’s acting is top notch it could never be enough to save this film, which i give 2/5
I don’t think Alien: Resurrection is as bad as everyone makes out, but don’t get me wrong, it is bad! From the names attatched to the opening credits I actually thought that this was going to be quite a good film! With names like Winona Ryder and Ron Perlman, as well as being written by Joss Whedon, half of the master behind The Cabin in the Woods and also being directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet who was energetically distinctive in Amelie. Unfortunately this was not so. The screenplay was all over the place with Ripley sort of being given a whole new personality which I didn’t particularly like. The main crew were also mainly caricatures who you couldn’t care for and the set-up just seemed like a weirdly unsuccessful combination of the claustraphobic intensity of Alien with the all-action fun of Aliens. It failed at both. That’s not to say that it was all bad. Scenes that stick out were the discovering the vile clones and the under-water attack. However, the rest is just a forgettable and cheap mess. The return of the mother seemed cool, but her role was pretty pathetic. The child she birthed was even more discombobulating, but it could’ve worked if it had a bigger and more threatening role. In the end Alien: Resurrection falls apart. Some of it is entertaining but for the most part I didn’t feel it! However, I’d say it’s less boring than Alien 3 but not as good either.
This movie’s plot made little sense and wasn’t well thought out. The only postives I can think of this movie is the idea of a company uses people aganist they’re will to create the aliens was a interesting concept and the actress that played the andriod I thought did a good job. Everything else was bad in my opinion.