Super fun!
I wasn't expecting 'Alien Resurrection' to come out better than 'Alien³'. Sure, this 1997 flick isn't as great as 'Alien' and 'Aliens' but I honestly wouldn't put it that far off. I really enjoyed it, cracking action coupled with a great cast.
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley is a pleasure as always, meanwhile this is the most I enjoyed a support cast from the franchise. Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, Raymond Cruz, Gary Dourdan and Michael Wincott all have positive moments.
Not the franchise's best, yet arguably its most entertaining. ¯(ツ)/¯
One of the worst films I've ever seen. How people continue to make apologies for it is beyond me.
This is a real departure in tone from the other three Alien films that preceded it. It's rather quirky with its cast of over-the-top characters. Sigourney Weaver is still great of course, and Brad Dourif brings the weird. Ron Perlman is part of the cast, but he serves next to no purpose other than to deliver some of the attempts at humor in Joss Whedon's script.
The practical effects are very good with the queen alien bordering on amazing. The baby alien is also quite a creation, although I'm not fond of how it's used. I was surprised at how gory this movie is. The other three Alien films didn't shy away from the gore, either, but "Alien Resurrection" ups the ante.
This is my least liked of the "quadrilogy" but it's still a fun watch.
There is so little about this film that works at all - a specific moment here or there such as Ripley's encounter with the previous clones perhaps. Winona Ryder is completely miscast and most of the performances are so over the top, even actors you can usually rely on, such as Perlman, fail to inject any sort of interest or emotional connection. Most of the humour falls flat and there is certainly nothing here to scare, with the emphasis on body horror and gore. It doesn't help that the effects look dated and cheap, something that could never be said about the previous entries, even the third. The setup of Ripley's character is initially intriguing, but this version of Ripley is far too removed from the original, meaning the film is unable to rely on the emotional connection to the character from the previous films and the script here is far too weak to make the audience care about what is effectively a new character. Weaver does her best, but this is not Ripley at all - the filmmakers seem to have completely forgotten about what made the character so compelling in the first place, instead choosing to focus on her superhuman abilities that have been passed on to her. An entry that adds little to the series and, given the closure that the third one provides, is perhaps best avoided.
The plot is laughable, but the third one and second one weren't much better. At least this has some iconic scenes, like the basketball scene, or Ripley drowning in a pile of Xenomorphs. I don't know, this one sucks as an Alien movie, but it's a guilty pleasure for me.
Ripley returns, two hundred years after taking a Terminator-styled incinerator bath at the end of Alien³, this time as a genetic clone. Where a rogue military organization sourced her blood samples, not to mention how they also managed to duplicate the queen xenomorph incubating in her torso, well, let's just try not to think about that. The screenplay certainly doesn't.
Whatever the scientific explanation, it isn't foolproof. Both Ripley and the alien are imperfect replicas, each retaining bits and pieces of the other (temper, blood type, reproductive cycle) like a space-bound version of The Fly. Predictably, this experiment soon leads to disaster and we get back to the usual territory: Sigourney Weaver, sprinting through dim hallways and firing bulky weapons, en route to the last remaining escape vessel.
Screenwriter Joss Whedon (I know, I was surprised too) apparently intended this as a tongue-in-cheek take on the sci-fi genre, territory which he'd soon explore in Firefly and Serenity, and was aghast to see everything played so straight in the final film. I don't think the Alien franchise is a great place to experiment with that kind of tonal shift, but yes, Resurrection shouldn't be a source of pride. It has strengths - the special effects, for example, are a marked improvement over the last film - but they're quickly overshadowed by the rudimentary plot, repulsive climax and hammy, made-for-TV acting. That last point is surprising, given the big names in the cast. We've got Ron Perlman and Winona Ryder, in addition to Weaver and a bunch of seasoned supporting players; they just can't work any magic with this brand of stiff dialogue and cruddy genre tropes. Not good.
I hate just about everything in this film. People (including myself) complained about Alien 3 for a lot of points. Quite frankly, that film is amazing in comparison. Direction, acting, plot quality... everything. I know Joss Whedon is the writer on this, but I can't believe this is what was in his mind while scripting. I've enjoyed many other things this guy has written, but I have a hard time figuring out how this would have worked at all. Also, it blows my mind how this series has dropped in effects quality with each new film. Just, don't bother watching this at all, it is a total wreck.
They tried to bring back Ripley to please fans. However, she's just not the same. This Ripley isn't as likeable since she's a clone with very little emotion. While the fine cast is just wasted in a movie that drags the series down to B-Movie status.
The cable rating gives this *** but part 3 **. What drugs are they on ? Despite it's flaws and killing off Ripley, Hicks and Newt. Yes, even that film is way better than this. Since it had better direction at least.
While I was at first was shocked to be reminded that Joss Whedon wrote the screenplay. Since it feels more like fan fiction. However, the Avengers has that feeling to it at times as well.
Despite coming out two years before Deep Blue Sea. It's pretty much that movie with aliens, except Deep Blue Sea is actually better. Winoma Ryder looks lost but Call is still the only character I cared about.
Cinema Paco 1. picture and sound 3.5 / 5 Much better than 3, but far from the 1 and 2. Starting on white alien all go to shit
Shame on Joss Whedon (script).... the worst Alien movie...
3 in 1 Alien movie mashed up and discombobulated. The mystery, suspense, and terror from number 1, the action, cast, and large sequences from number 2, and the horrible dialogue and characterisation from number 3. I would have loved this if it wasn't so weirdly sexualised and distasteful. The characters were played brilliantly by the cast, but the writing behind them gave me more and more hope that the aliens would finally win. The visual effects weren't great, but the practical effects were amazing. I didn't like the laughably bad comedy. It took me out several times.
I liked that we finally got to see the research sort of thing that was always alluded to. It was a pretty cool uber alien kill though.
why are the male characters in this franchise always creeps
The characters really just sucked in this. The technological changes, the few shown, were cool for the lore. But overall this movie really isn’t good
Great stylish directing, a cast including Ron Perlman, and Ripley at her gayest can’t save this movie from Joss Whedon’s script. People think Alien 3 is the worst after hearing this dialogue? Plus the Newborn being a strike out, the general thinking he’s in a parody movie, and a general to al whiplash from the franchise as a whole and I’m comfortable saying this is the worst I’ve seen in the franchise, at least so far. Even the good, like Weaver clearly enjoying the darker and more detached spin on her character and the entire clone lab scene, are weighed down by how uncanny it is to see Weaver play a Whedon girl. I just can’t vibe with this movie.
This movie had so much going for it. Excellent cast, awesome director, written by Joss Whedon - it should have been fun, if nothing else. Unfortunately, it ended up being a nonsensical, hideous mess and an insult to anyone who loves the first two movies. It's like an idiot's view of the future. Ripley died for better than this. To its credit, the creature design at the end is hella nightmarish.
Original series
Alien (1979) https://trakt.tv/movies/alien-1979
Aliens (1986) https://trakt.tv/movies/aliens-1986
Alien 3 (1992) https://trakt.tv/movies/alien-1992
Alien Resurrection (1997) https://trakt.tv/movies/alien-resurrection-1997
Prequel series
Prometheus (2012) https://trakt.tv/movies/prometheus-2012
Alien: Covenant (2017) https://trakt.tv/movies/alien-covenant-2017
Most certainly the best Alien movie that exists.
"Look at how they massacred my boy"
Damn, I really wanted this movie to be good. For me it started great, 200 years after the events on Fury 161 they clone Ripley to get the Xenomorph Queen. Again, for me this was great, I really was into the story and wanted to know how the plot was going to unfold. But... cmon...
One minute you have Xeno's killing each other to perfurate the hull of the space ship (with their acid blood) , another you have them magically spit acid out of their mouth just to snare a human
Them trying to be funny was just utterly awful
Now let's address the elephant in the room, I've seen many commenters saying that Ripley's lack of emotions and empathy threw them off. I kinda get it, not that I liked it, but I get the need. They needed a way to separate real Ripley from clone Ripley.
The awful acting and jokes, the unexplainable new power and the last xeno-humanoid is what made this movie so awful for me, they should have just kept this a trilogy
More enjoyable and fun to watch than 3, but also completely stupid. No CGI (good, because the Alien looks amazing), but not as good of an Alien film than 3.
After David Fincher’s atrocious Alien 3, screenwriter Joss Whedon attempts to revive the series with Alien Resurrection. And Whedon does a pretty good job given what Fincher left him to work with. In this fourth installment a remote military base is conducting illegal experiments to clone Ripley and harvest the alien creature from her. The cast here is solid; Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Pearlman, and Michael Wincott. They all work well together, and find a good rhythm that instantly draws the audience into their fight for survival. Unfortunately, the main weakness of the film is Weaver herself, who over dramatizes Clone Ripley’s struggles for identity. An entertaining adventure that both thrills and terrifies, Alien Resurrection saves the series from the abyss that Fincher threw it into, but it doesn’t completely return it to its former glory.
Love, trust and betrayal.
Why did she do this? It believed to her!
Es como "Firefly conoce a la Teniente Ripley". Es la más aleja a la estética de Giger, pero está muy bien escrita. Grandes personajes y geniales one-liners.
Es una historia digna de un buen cómic, videojuego o un módulo de juego de rol.
the third and fourth instalments are extremely disappointing
to think that Alien and Aliens are among my favourite movies makes it even more frustrating
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The last chapter in the "Alien" saga is also the weakest movie of the quadrology! It has an even more unrealistic story than Aliens (Alien 2).
Additionally to this shortcoming it's too much action & too few horror elements. And most annoyingly Jean-Pierre Jeunet added (or at least tried to add) some humour and comical phrases which are absolutly missplaced. The best thing about the movie are gorgeous aliens in it!
All in all it was an absolutely unnecessary extension to an excellent trilogy.