Alien Resurrection

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Alien Resurrection

R

1997

1h 49m

Sci-Fi

Horror

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Two hundred years have passed since Ellen Ripley died on Fiorina 161. Aboard the medical research vessel USM Auriga, a team of scientists clones Ripley from her extracted DNA and removes the alien Queen embryo which was growing inside her at the time of her death.

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Critics Consensus

While Sigourney Weaver's feral performance as a resurrected Ripley restores some fun to the Alien franchise, the acid blood running through this fourth entry's veins corrodes whatever emotional investment audiences had left.

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Bernard Zuel

Sydney Morning Herald

Apr 29

The plot lines are way too familiar and the ending is merely an invitation for Alien 5.

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David Hunter

The Hollywood Reporter

08/07/2024

Alien Resurrection checks in with enough slime, gore and scary monster-flick moments to satisfy undemanding audiences. But it's an ugly, animated corpse of a movie stitched together from the other three films in the series.

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Jay Carr

Boston Globe

08/07/2024

[A] cold but sufficiently nightmarish and high-powered proof that there's life in the old franchise yet.

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

04/29/2025

3.5/5

You've got to give Alien Resurrection some credit: it takes some big swings.

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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

04/23/2025

3.5/5

Too weird, wet and horny to be widely accepted, Alien Resurrection nevertheless captures Jeunet's unique stuff, Whedon's trademark quips, and brings its own flavour to the Alien franchise

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Stephen A. Russell

Orion's Shoulder (Substack)

03/06/2025

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s otherwise truly pathetic crash and burn of the xenomorph-driven franchise.

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Dominic T.

@Dom2Chilly 6h

7.0/10. Great movie but gross and graphic near the end. Taps into gore horror a lot. Good watch but really stretching the franchise thin.

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Leprechaun K

@LeprechaunKing 4d

Alien Resurrection is by far the worst installment of the entire franchise. It fails in everyway. The directing, writing, casting, performance, dialogue, creatures design, practical effects, and storytelling are horrible. It lacks the horror and suspense expected of an alien movie. The comedic tone is out of place and completely ruins the movie.

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JP V

@JPGrey Jun 14

People and critics are weird. This movie mostly looks good, but it is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy better than those turds that are "Promehteus" and "Covenant", ESPECIALLY better than that last one mentioned. And: there's Sigourney, Brad effing Douriff, Ron effing Perlman, Dan effing Hedaya. Nuff said.

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Priya C.

@Sci-FiTrekkie May 13

I personally found Alien Resurrection silly but kind of enjoyable in its own way. It’s not a good Alien film but it had moments I liked.

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Benjamin W.

@Code70 May 6

What the heck did I just watch? As much as I disliked Alien 3, I think this somehow ended up being worse. On the one hand, it’s a good bit more watchable than that film. On the other, it’s less well-made technically speaking, and has some of the most ridiculous plotlines ever seen in this franchise. It’s no secret that this (and Alien 3) went through tremendous production issues. And while I think it’s evident in both cases, this movie just has a story that makes absolutely no sense, has completely scattershot plot points, and definitely was not worth telling. Yeah, I don’t know man. This just kinda sucked for me.

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Tierney O

@RT76648757 Apr 13

When we look at the actual message of the movie alien and what the face huggers and aliens are representing this is disheartening, combining human and alien like it is a good thing is wrong, like they just ignored the entire reason why aliens are bad in this movie series. It is honestly just fan service and nothing else it should have stopped moving foward after the movie aliens. Would not recommend.

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Synopsis

Two hundred years have passed since Ellen Ripley died on Fiorina 161. Aboard the medical research vessel USM Auriga, a team of scientists clones Ripley from her extracted DNA and removes the alien Queen embryo which was growing inside her at the time of her death.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Producer: Bill Badalato, Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Screenwriter: Joss Whedon
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox, Brandywine Productions
Rating: R (Grotesque Images|Gore|Language|Strong Sci-Fi Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 26, 1997, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $47.7M
Runtime: 1h 49m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)