Starting to get back on track...

Rating: 6/10 (17 January 2016)

Recovering from the mediocre blow that was "Alien³" put a lot of pressure on "Alien: Resurrection", and it was steep hill to scale for director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With that being said, don't get me wrong here, because I am not saying that he failed, nor am I saying that "Alien: Resurrection" is a poor movie. No. The director managed to steer the franchise back towards the right track, which was established with the first two movies. But it just didn't fully reach the same level of entertaining or intensity.
Personally I didn't get the aspect of cloning would mix the DNA of Ripley and the alien that she had inside her at the time of her death in "Alien³". But hey, I guess it made for a theatrical twist to the storyline. And also the super-human direction that this was steering the Ripley character was also a bit too childish, in lack of a better word, in my opinion.
The story in "Alien: Resurrection" takes place 200 years after "Alien³". Ripley has been cloned and the alien queen inside her surgically removed, but the cloning process has mixed the DNA of Ripley and the queen, giving Ripley a mutated human/xenomorph DNA structure. And as the military is trying to breed the aliens for biological weapons, they soon find their space vessel overrun by perfect killing machines.
The effects in "Alien: Resurrection" were adequate and getting back on track after the abysmal gallery of effects shown in "Alien³". And it was, of course, nice to have multiple aliens and even a queen throughout the movie. Which leads me on to the creature birthed by the queen, as she no longer lays eggs, but gives birth much like humans do. The creature which was now closer in resemblance to a human that ever before, well of course it is a matter of personal preference whether you enjoyed that or not. Personally, I didn't like that creature particularly much. Sure it had some nice touches and details, but in overall it just deviated too much from the original alien strain. And furthermore, where did all the eggs in the kitchen area come from if the queen no longer laid eggs? That was a puzzle to me.
"Alien: Resurrection" doesn't have as much of an impressive cast as the previous three movies did. Sure, Sigourney Weaver is the main attraction, but aside from here then there isn't that much of an impressive ensemble of cast for my liking. The only two other people that really pulled their weight was Brad Dourif and Michael Wincott.
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet started to steer the franchise back on course, but just fully reached the endline with "Alien: Resurrection".