Alien Resurrection (1997)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
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Thirty-three years after his “Alien” introduced moviegoers to the terrors of extra-terrestrial life and the horrors of being named “Sigourney,” and 15 years after “Alien: Resurrection” basically ended the franchise (we do not speak of the two “Alien vs. Predator” movies), Ridley Scott returns to outer space with “Prometheus,” a visually arresting but thematically drab sci-fi thriller that’s set in the same fictional universe.
Scott left the sequels to other now-famous filmmakers: James Cameron directed Aliens in 1986, David Fincher did Alien3 in 1992, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet capped off the series (until now) with Alien: Resurrection in 1997.
Alien 3 was a botch job, and Alien: Resurrection was fun but inconsequential.
We did that on a ship in “Alien,” with marines in a space colony in “Aliens,” on a prison planet in “Alien 3” and on a ship again in “Alien: Resurrection.”
Watching Prometheus and then thinking about its predecessors in the Alien quadrilogy (a clumsy term I believe invented for 1997’s Alien: Resurrection), one cannot but recognize the story’s elemental limitations.
Given the state of the Alien franchise (after the underwhelming Alien vs. Predator installments, as well as Alien: Resurrection), it’s no wonder that 20th Century Fox is interested in attracting both the casual moviegoer as well as the die-hard xenomorph faithful.
When the final new genetically engineered menace appears, it looks less like a dinosaur and more like the Newborn from Alien Resurrection.
Boyce first discovers the fruits of these demented labors (a sequence weirdly evocative of Ripley finding her clones in Alien: Resurrection ), there’s nothing particularly astonishing about any of it.
For about two thirds of this frenetic movie, despite the constant genre pilfering (or possibly because of it: don't forget Alien: Resurrection's creepy lab!), it's a geeky good time.