Nice touch up on the "Alien" series

Rating: Null/10 (16 December 1999)

"Alien: Resurrection" is the last (so far) of the "Alien" series started in 1979. It breaks new ground with new characters and a new Ellen Ripley. 200 years after she killed herself on Fiorina 161, the United Systems Military has acquired her blood samples and cloned her in order to get the alien queen she was carrying at the time of her death. They use the queen to lay her eggs and the crew of the "Betty" brings in a shipment of people cryogenically frozen to use for the facehuggers. The aliens are born but soon all hell breaks loose and they break loose. Ripley, who is now a half human/half alien because of the DNA mix of the cloning, teams up with the crew of the "Betty" in order to stop the aliens before they head to Earth. The film is an improvement over "Alien 3" but still doesn't deliver the punch that we got from the first two films. There is action in this however, including a great underwater scene and the gore in here is plentiful (this is by far the goriest entry in the series). The characters aren't that well developed, all except for Ripley, who is sarcastic and developed a Groucho Marx-like one-liner syndrome. Also added is this hideous newborn creature that thinks Ripley is it's momma or something like that.