It's Ripley, believe it or not!

Rating: Null/10 (25 August 1999)

Okay, so this movie doesn't match up to Alien or Aliens. But it certainly makes up for Alien 3's lack to carry the series. But after all, it would be difficult to carry the series from what Ridley Scott and James Cameron have done. Alien Res. does provide more insight into the lives of the denizens of a later era. We meet Elgyn and his irrepressible crew, as well as the almost psychotic General Perez and his slimy scientists. We get another great character, Call (played by the very talented Wynona
Ryder), and finally, we get Ripley, believe it or not (!) back from the dead (played by the fantastic Sigourney Weaver. An Alien film just isn't an Alien film without the Erica Kane of the Alien Legacy. What a great heroine!) This film brings Ripley to a new plane on the evolutionary scale. This new Ellen Ripley, part Alien, part human, is unsure about her destiny at first, but the film ends up giving us the Ripley we've come to know and love. Alien Res. does take the series' show piece, the Alien, to a new level with the disgusting Newborn. If the Queen in Aliens didn't even terrify you, this creature will! The pace is somewhat uneven, but the action is high, the film's sequences are interesting. The movie is a excellent blend of the dirty pirates shifting to virtue (well, somewhat) while the clean scientists turn evil, Ripley's dynamic return, and an interesting prophetic commentary on cloning, evil and good. My thinking, 20th Century Fox can take this series now in two different directions:: 1) Alien 5 could catalogue a new discovery of aliens after Alien Res. with or without Ripley (and Call) or 2) Alien 5 could write off the two most recent films as a
dream sequence (Fox's original idea for Alien 4). After
all, it makes sense that Ripley would dream about dying with the aliens, and her resurrection with the aliens is testimony to her growing ever close to the alien race.
Bottom line: We met one derelict ship in Alien. Isn't
interesting, the prospect of more? I would think the aliens had to originate from somewhere, right?
Let Ripley, Hicks, Newt, and Bishop embark on new adventures with our unfriendly aliens, or show all new characters. The cosmos is the limit for this series now!