Best movie ever!

The first must-see film of the year.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

After that debacle that was Alien3, we got this one. A resurrected Ripley and a new cast of characters, including Ron Perlman and Winona Ryder. A lot of people seemed to hate this one, but I liked it better than Alien3. There was action but it was a little more warped than its predecessors, including that creepy alien baby that makes the Chupacabra look cute. I won't call this one the best, but it was decent in my opinion. If you enjoyed the first two, fine. But don't bother if you've already seen Alien3. This may not be much consolation. But don't take my word for it.

This film can be summed up in one sentence - "It's fine until the big white thing appears".This of course refers to the newborn creature which was created for the film (with zero input from Giger I might add). The lumbering atrocity was one of the worst decisions ever made in this franchise and is there for sheer shock value alone. The makers obviously didn't know how to end the movie and so descended into schlock and gore with this horrible beast as some sort of cheap climax which caters for the lowest common denominator. Absolutely unintelligent and utterly tasteless!The rest of the film however, is great! It's a really good, solid action sci-fi with some memorable characters, and there's some really interesting sections like the clone room, the man who is told he is impregnated, and some new behavioural traits from the Aliens themselves. The film wasted a tremendous opportunity by killing off most of the crew from The Betty. They could have very well taken over the franchise from Ripley, becasue we've had the tragic personal tale already, so an ensemble piece concerning mercenaries hunting down the creatures for profit could have really opened up some doors to interesting stories.That being said, the movie could have been a smashing 90s sci-fi film in its own right if it didn't house the Alien name, but the weight of the franchise brand plus some quite awful decisions drag it down to just "decent but flawed".Worth watching for the first hour and a half for sure, but after that it descends into gross out pap.

One of the longest running modern day horror franchises, "Alien" is a fascinating beast in the world of entertainment and media. With its humble origins as a quiet, slow-burn sci-fi thriller, the series evolved through sequels and spin-offs into something else entirely. Whether it be through James Cameron's exquisite action-extravaganza "Aliens", or the Paul W.S. Anderson schlock-tastic crossover "AVP: Alien VS Predator", or even series co-creator Ridley Scott's own pseudo- philosophical quasi-prequel "Prometheus"... "Alien" has changed and evolved quite a bit over the past forty years.But one release in particular has attracted an almost unanimous scorn and unending ridicule from all over the fanbase. A film that's so reviled, it's almost become a prerequisite that you're just expected to hate it. That being 1997's "Alien: Resurrection"- a strange little footnote in the series that tries its hardest but never quite comes together into much of anything. An attempt to turn the series around after the mixed reception garnered by "Alien 3", this fourth film aims for the stars, but stumbles and falls flat on its face. Although, if I am to be completely honest... I actually don't mind it too much. It's silly, but quite amusing and thrilling, with stylish visual direction and plenty of laughs and thrills to go around. Yes, "Resurrection" might be a mindless and trite exercise in style over substance... but it's also bold and extraordinarily entertaining. It's a ton of fun, even if it is objectively a "bad movie."Two-hundred years after the events of the previous film, scientists working for the military successfully clone Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and the queen embryo she had been impregnated with, intent on allowing the alien life-form to reproduce so that they might study its race. This "new" Ripley has retained some faint memories of her former life thanks to genetic memory, but as a result of the cloning process, has also taken on some characteristics of the dreaded "xenomorph" species. When the offspring of the alien queen manage to escape, however, Ripley is forced to team up with a group of mercenary space-pirates (including Ron Perlman, Winona Ryder) in order to escape. Along the way, she will uncover startling and deadly revelations about the project that brought her back to life, and come face to face with a devilish new threat...Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet from a script by the world-renowned geek-god Joss Whedon, "Resurrection" does so much right that it's frankly a shame it's so routinely dismissed without much thought. It's essentially an incredibly slick and exceedingly well-made crappy B-movie. The plot is ridiculous. The characters silly and archetypal. And it's filled to burst with nonstop gore and effects. But it's made with a massive budget, an A-list cast and comes from a wildly talented director with a clear vision. Even on a pure aesthetic level, it's one of the most striking films of the franchise, with Jeunet's wonderful eye for flow and composition delivering many incredible set-pieces and designs that'll stick with you. It's just a gorgeous film all around.The cast is an absolute blast, with Weaver once again knocking it out of the park. Especially as this "new" Ripley also goes through some fascinating changes that both allow Weaver to stretch her acting chops... and have some fun chewing the scenery from time to time. Perlman and Ryder are good fun as members of a space-pirate team, with Perlman in particular being a good fit for the franchise. He's a criminally underrated performer and it's a joy seeing him on- screen. We also get small but fun turns from the likes of Brad Dourif, Dan Hedaya and Michael Wincott, and all serve the film quite well. The effects and action are top-notch for the time, with many sequences still holding up quite well to this day. An underwater chase-scene and a trippy climactic battle against a potential new threat in particular being eye-popping and absolutely jaw-dropping. And the wonderful cinematography and almost amniotic musical score add much to every single scene.But yeah... despite that praise, the film does have a lot of problems. Like I said above- it's basically a big-budget B-movie filled with the tropes and archetypes you'd expect, and it doesn't fit in with the rest of the series quite well. Unless you're willing to forgive a lot and go with the flow, you're not gonna have a good time with "Resurrection." There has been a lot of talk of how Whedon disowned the film and felt his script wasn't translated properly to screen, and I could definitely see shades of that. For all the amazing things he does, Jeunet seems less interested with story and more interested in increasingly psychotic visuals. And if you're looking for anything more than surface-level entertainment, you'll be sadly let-down.But me? I take movies for what they are and what they aspire to be. It's clear everyone involved on-screen is having a lot of fun. It's clear that Jeunet is trying to build a wild thrill-ride of a monster-movie. And it's clear that this is a film more concerned with crazed displays of gore and effects than a cohesive story. And you know what? I had a lot of fun with it. It's technically a "bad" movie, but to me... it's a FUN bad movie. And I'm giving it slightly above average 6 out of 10. Give it another shot with an open mind. It just might surprise you how enjoyable "Alien: Resurrection" really is.

The year was 2010 and a re-release of all the first 4 "Alien" movies in one complete set on BluRay disk, along with two extra disks of extras. A total of 6 BDs. I found that my local public library has the set and I now have watched all 4 of them within a few days. Picture and DTS sound are excellent as we have come to expect for BluRay. And seeing them in sequence over a short period of time enhances the enjoyment of all of them.As the commentary track states, there never was an intent to make more than 3 movies, that is why the 3rd one ended the way it did. But they set this 4th one 200 years into the future and a deep space ship has scientists and technology to allow cloning. The former space ship of Ripley's had traces of her DNA and early in the movie we see them fabricating a new one, Sigourney Weaver as Ripley.Each of the 4 movies has a different script writer and different director so each has its own mood and look. This one is a bit cleaner and brighter. In fact the first half of the movie is superb as the stage is set for cloning and studying the aliens. The second half degrades quite a bit with more craziness among the characters and more fights and chases involving aliens. A big reveal is that the "new" Ripley has some alien characteristics of strength and quickness. But in the end Ripley once again has to be destroyed. The movie ends with several surviving in an escape pod to Earth while the larger spaceship with aliens crashes at a terrific velocity in an uninhabited part of Earth to destroy all remaining aliens and eggs. We see it is the outskirts of what used to be the thriving city of Paris, complete with a half-toppled Eiffel Tower.