What a Mess

Rating: 3/10 (30 July 1999)

If Alien3 didn't convince you that the franchise was finished Alien Resurrection sure will. Set 200 years in the future after Ripley destroys herself to save humanity (in Alien3) she is brought back to life, cloned from a surviving sample of her blood. But it's not just her genes but a mixture that includes alien genetic material. She still looks human but is not, now she can play a killer game of basketball. Stripped of her humanity Ripley fails to pack the dramatic punch that was so much a critical element of the earlier Alien movies. And the aliens, well, they are now just another part of the cast, ho-hum. The plot, and other characters are cartoonish and stereotypical. What a waste of acting talent! And the grand finale is so bad as to be laughable.
My advice is to avoid this movie.