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Summary: Ellen Ripley (Weaver) died fighting the perfect predator. Two hundred years and eight horrific experiments later, she's back. A group of scientists has cloned her-along with the alien queen inside her-hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the resurrected Ripley must team up with a band of smugglers, including a mechanic named Call (Ryder), who holds more than a few surprises of her own. (20th Century Fox)
The visual design and cinematography is the best part. All the hybrids are pretty disturbing to look at. Overall, not as bad as it's made out to be. Brad Dourif is underused.
It starts like a european art-film and ends in a classic stand-off. Essentially it's trapped between the two, like some freakish hybrid, not unlike the one in the film.
Though I expected a whole lot more from one of my favorite directors, watching this in the director's cut, or as he puts it the special edition makes it somewhat enjoyable watch. It's not as awful as people say but it certainly doesn't come to par with the first three. I mention three cause the director's cut of the Alien 3 is also a fine movie. Anyway, though not fitting end of the saga, Resurrection is visually very nice, has it's share of fun moments and is generaly a pretty light watch.
Alien licking sounds like something right up my street. This movie had everything going for it but just kind of fell apart in the execution. I guess some credit is deserved that the Alien franchise did try and do something different with each instalment - I just think they misjudged what to do differently this time.
Where the three prequels managed to build up suspense in believable dystopian futures, this opts for cartoony, stilistic, gory and sometimes even juvenile action, and as a result never feels like a real part of the original universe. That said Jeunet manages to create some beautiful scenes, and if judged on it's own merit it's a pleasingly grotesque and surreal body-horror sci-fi.