Alien: Resurrection

Alien Resurrection has some fun moments, and visually, it's exciting to watch, but it's a matter of been there, done that - and far better. While a considerable improvement on its predecessor, Alien Resurrection remains a glorified chase movie with a few one liners to give it an extra bit of punch. ... Full Review

Of course, Alien: Resurrection is nowhere near as sophisticated and profound as Romero's classic, but it's still every bit as fun. If the film doesn't bullshit around, the same can't be said about Winona Ryder. ... Full Review

Overall I found Resurrection to be a very entertaining and frequently thrilling flick. Certainly, the film has flaws, and since the most widely cited problems occur at the end of the movie, those so-called failures are even more noticeable. ... Full Review

Overall I found Resurrection to be a very entertaining and frequently thrilling flick. Certainly, the film has flaws, and since the most widely cited problems occur at the end of the movie, those so-called failures are even more noticeable. ... Full Review

Times are hard for dreamers," someone says in director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ( Alien Resurrection ) almost unbearably wonderful new film. fantastical spirit tickles your intellectual funny bone; the film is breezy, witty, with a dose of snideness to save it from saccharine -- that makes Amelie so very delightful ... Full Review

It's difficult to describe the look of the film, which is painstakingly precise, but colorful, airy and alive at the same time. But instead it easily and quickly sets up the film's warmth, humor and charm that it sustains perfectly throughout. ... Full Review

If you stick with it long, the real payoff is watching the niftier special-effects moments: aliens swimming through water and Ripley's half-breed alien son. The wasted talent ends right where the incompetence of 20th Century Fox's DVD begins. ... Full Review

The build-up to the inevitable Alien escape is suitably tantalising, but, once the toothy droolers get busy stalking and slashing Sadly, far too much of the rest of the film either runs lukewarm or simply does not work at all: frequently wonky effects; a hectic flamethrower bio-lab destruction scene which goes on forever (cloning is bad... ... Full Review

In fact, the best acting in the damned movie is only available on the special edition DVD.....Some of the alien scenes were even cool.....Even Weaver's usually flawless performance as Ripley suffered in this film.....This concludes the esplanation of why the lamest scene in the entire movie was indeed so lame..... ... Full Review

It's hard to remember a more coarse, obscenely violent movie. Alien Resurrection'' is easily the most visually interesting of all. It's better not to because other than the visual treatment, the film's only source of freshness is the plot details. ... Full Review