Resurrection ma non tropo

Rating: 7/10 (2 April 2001)

There are some grave injustices in this world. We are in front of one of them. This movie is EXCELLENT! It completely brought back to life a saga that was buried by another brilliant and not understood movie: alien 3. But the critics didn't let it. The issues of humanity, new way of facing the alien, new Ripley, dark environments, interesting characters and excellent direction make this film a near masterpiece of sci-fi, horror and action. The fresh direction from a french director that also brought us "The City of Lost Children" gives us a completely different movie that deviates from the normal pace of the alien movies. The only problem I can see in this movie is that the change is so big that the movie spends its entire time acomodating people to the changes, and doesn't face completely its issues, but that for me isn't a problem: on the contrary of what critics are saying, this opens the door for a grandeous Alien 5 in the future that could truly end the saga as it deserves. Two thumbs up for its excepcional musical score that brings back elements from the other three movies, and an applause for its great special and visual effects, bringing for the first time realistic CG aliens to life.