Alien Resurrection (DVD) Reviews

Poor old Sigourney Weaver. One whiff of a multi-million dollar cheque and she's off. Despite having said she wouldn't do another, she did. Cleverly disguised as 'Alien Resurrection,' Alien 4 is a very different trip to 'Alien 3'. Firstly, weapons are back in play, secondly, there's more than one woman and most importantly, Sigourney Weaver has ...  Read the complete review

Plot: Having died at the end of Alien 3 Ellen Ripley and her alien parasite are re-created in the future so that government forces can get hold of an alien. A bunch of space pirates provide the hosts for the government, and when delivering them become stranded on the ship. The aliens promptly escape, and make the resulting escape of the ...  Read the complete review

After David Fincher dropped the ball completely with the third film in the Aliens series, the hugely promising franchise was looking severely derailed and badly in need of putting back on track. Step in French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who presides over a new and completely artificial plotline that gets around the fact that Ripley died at the ...  Read the complete review

At first the whole idea of Alien resurrection seems implausible after the events of Alien 3 however somehow a sort of plot has been conjured up to allow the resurrection of both Ripley and the alien. The story finds a mercenary crew making to them an unknown delivery of bodies used to reproduce the horror from within them. Soon all military ...  Read the complete review

Oh dear. Even for a dedicated and passionate Alien follower, such as myself, it is hard to see any good in Alien Resurrection. So immensely grotesque (even for my liking); a cold, heartless Ripley that is a disappointing far cry from the female action hero we used to love; and a group of wannabe badass marines that neither come close to the crew ...  Read the complete review

The fourth installment in the Alien saga and in many ways a change from the original format. The original two films in particular had the air of suspense about them...you knew that aliens would be there....but we knew so little about them that we let our imaginations run wild! In this film the Aliens are bred on purpose, ...  Read the complete review

The fourth in the Alien saga, and one of the worst. Despite Ellen Ripley dying in Alien 3, she is back running around from the Aliens, 200 years later no doubt! Ellen Ripley is cloned from blood taken from her on Fiora, she is cloned so that the authorities can remove the alien that was growing inside her and, would you know it, baby ...  Read the complete review

Alien Resurrection, the fourth, and at the time of writing last, film in the Alien series was released in 1997 and directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, City Of Lost Children) from a script by Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Set 200 years after Alien 3, Alien Resurrection is set on a secret military ...  Read the complete review

This fourth entry in the Alien saga picks up the story 200 years after Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley took the plunge into a pit of molten lead. Luckily for us and this film franchise it turns out that some of her cells were salvaged and now scientists on board a research ship heading for Earth are busy trying to clone her for the alien queen she ...  Read the complete review

This is the fourth instalment of the Alien saga that most people thought would never be produced. Sigourney said she'd never do another. Ripley was dead anyhow so another wouldn't be possible, yet here she is running around chasing more Aliens once again. The only difference being it isn't her, its Clone 8, reborn from Ripley DNA, ...  Read the complete review

Now, I’ve watched, enjoyed and wrote on here about the three previous three Alien movies. The first was a classic, the second an enjoyable action-romp and the third was a movie that, whilst being enjoyable and certainly watch able was something of a missed opportunity. In my opinion; the more Alien movies that were produced the ...  Read the complete review

The fourth instalment of the Alien saga is an incredibly shallow film, marred by poor acting performances, surprisingly, even Weaver does not put in a decent performance, as she resembles Keanu Reeves in her woodenness. Again, the plot is simple - kill the aliens - and again, there is a traitor in the mix who is conducting sick ...  Read the complete review

Yes even though she died in the end of aliens three they had to milk it and bring her back. Luckily I'm glad they did as it was excellent even though aliens 3 was a major let down (probably because of the lack in weapons and action). They bring Ripley back from the dead using some of her DNA they found. The whole purpose of bringing ...  Read the complete review

'Alien' was horror at its most primal, and therefore effective. An isolated crew of mixed gender is picked off one by one by a largely unseen phallus-looking a monster. 'Aliens', with an unsubtlety characteristic of its director James Cameron, went for the 'more is more' approach and became essentially a war movie in space. ...  Read the complete review

After the first three films I was somewhat surprised that they bought out yet another sequel. The film cost $70 million and starts off on a massive space ship called the Auriga. The film starts with Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has been cloned, seven times previously to be exact. Two hundred years have passed and the alien queen has been harnessed ...  Read the complete review

We wanted to love this, honest we did. Jeunet could hardly complain he wasn't preaching to a converted (and rapt) audience. But on video, long after big screen disappointment has tempered small screen expectation, it hasn't actually got any better. Two centuries on from Alien3, Ripley, Ellen, Lieutenant First Class, number 36706 ...  Read the complete review

For the true Alien purists the fourth installment is considered the worst. Personally I find this a more entertaining romp than the third and it has a bit more style. The storyline manages to bring back Ripley as a clone with an alien queen inside her. this is in the vain hope that the ultimate weapon can be created. A band of smugglers ...  Read the complete review

I waited for this to come out on DVD before I saw it, thank Heavens for that. I'm so glad I didn't waste the money to see it in the theater. While the special effects were good and the plot plausible (questionably) I think that compared to the first two it didn't live up to the Alien saga. (Spoiler) Everything that made Ripley ...  Read the complete review

Alien Resurrection is the forth installment of the Alien saga. Unfortunately it does not compare to the others. In this movie they have tried too hard to mix action with horror.(This did work however in Aliens (No. 2 in the saga for those fools that don't know)). Granted there are good bits to the movie, like when 2 aliens turn on another ...  Read the complete review

‘Alien’ has undergone years of alternating critical debate, revered and reviled in pretty equal measure, while its successor ‘Aliens’ probably enjoys the most secure reputation, adored for the iconic quality of Sigourney Weaver’s performance and the assurance of James Cameron’s muscular direction. ...  Read the complete review