12 out of 16 people found the following review helpful:

Forget It's An Alien Sequel

Imran from London, 28th August, 2004

Easily the worst film in the series however even though it sounds contradictory, it's actually worth a watch as a sci-fi film in it's own right. It's just a shame it's tarnishing the reputation of the first two by being associated with them. The effects are decent as is the ever-excellent Sigourney Weaver, but this film has a couple of comedy moments which in my opinion is pure blasphemy for a film part of the classic Alien franchise.

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8 out of 9 people found the following review helpful:

Vastly underrated

Steve from Cambridge, 4th June, 2005

OK. We've all been frightened to death in our youth with 'ALIEN'. A year or two later we were frightened once more when Cameron delivered what is probably the best 2nd part sequel ever ('ALIENS'). We then all got more slightly more mature over the years and had different perceptions of Fincher's ALIEN3: some of us thought it too little of a splatter movie while others complained about it's still being a rip-off of the original. Now then, there's no question about us people in the +30 age group, is there? We simply must see ALIEN RESURRECTION, don't we? The whole saga has become part of our personal history and seeing Lt Ripley dealing with Giger's creation makes us feel young again. I'm ever so glad Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a director who, just as the rest of us, has grown from teen to twen to adult with the ALIEN-trilogy's impact on his creative soul. He doesn't copy, he doesn't steal, he doesn't try a rip-off of any kind. Instead, he carries the story further, he introduces tongue-in-cheek-moments while at the same time delivering a true, suspenseful actionmovie that is very well worth seeing. ALIEN RESURRECTION fulfils all expections, both storywise and visually. For an action flick, the cast is beyond criticism. ALIEN RESURRECTION is to be judged for what it wants to be - an entertaining modern fairy tale, a horror action movie, a splatter for the masses. In these categories, it delivers

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7 out of 12 people found the following review helpful:

Worth a watch

A Customer from Cardiff,Wales, 4th June, 2004

If like me you thought the third film was poor and preferred the first two, then this film is worth a watch.

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3 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Could have been worse, I suppose

saishigo from London, 18th June, 2005

The idea of hiring an interesting director (Jean-Pierre Jenoit) to make the fourth instalment in the Alien franchise was a promising one. As a “gimmick” I prefer it to, say, 3-D or an Alien prequel (Ripley as a child discovers strange pod-like plants growing in the cellar of her house…). However Jenoit’s main contribution seems to be his affection for “eccentric actors” -- the film is littered with gargoyles: Brad Dourif, Ron Pearlman, Dan Hedaya (Jenoit can’t resist showing us the tufts of hair that sprout from Hedaya’s back), J.T. Freeman (who has the best death scene) and Jenoit regular Dominique Pinon. Who would have thought so many oddballs would be found co-habiting in space? Other than this, it is business as usual (plot-wise) and action sequences are not really Jenoit’s strength. Worse, the script by Josh Whedon is littered with cute one-liners (“Hey, I thought you were dead” “I get that a lot”) that are totally out of character and give the proceedings a jokey ambience that does nothing except elicit groans from the audience and undermine all hopes of suspense.

It could have been a lot worse, but why isn’t it better?

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very good

A Customer from Basildon, 22nd November, 2008

the end to the Alien films. Its not too bad its better than the earlier ones

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alien update

A Customer from London, 22nd September, 2008

I think it's quite interesting that they have managed to keep Alien going in spite of Aliens, which was the low ebb in the 'quadrilogy' as far as I am concerned. The androids or robots got quite a bit better since the original Ridley Scott space horror though the creature has lost that menacing dimension of mystery over time. Great nevertheless.

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Better than some

TooLateForMyNickname from , 28th August, 2008

I guess you could say that Alien was a classic, Aliens was pretty good to. After that, the formula became a little tired and so I hadn't bothered with this until now. Personally I would say that it was a pretty good story and didn't drag on like Aliens 3 (whatever that was called). Worth placing on your list if you like this type of film and need to add some titles.

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A Customer from UK, 23rd June, 2008

8 years after it's release and I finally get around to watching this film. I enjoyed it and liked the idea of the mixing of DNA. Ripley as a bitch with attitude was great. I really liked her in that role. The converse happened to the Alien. People have put down the idea of the 'newborn' as it was, but I thought it was clever to insinuate it had feelings and did not look as threatening as the 'real' aliens because it had human DNA in it which made it 'inferior' for a lack of a better word. The one liners and the 'bad boy' with humour in the band of smugglers? It seemed like deja vu to me, and then I saw Joss Whedon was the script writer. Now I know where some of his ideas for Firefly came from. Good stuff.

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