ALIEN: RESURRECTION

Rating: 7/10 (1 March 2020)

"ALIEN: RESURRECTION" (1997, Jeunet) continues where "ALIEN3" (1992, Fincher) left off...
But is completely different in just about every way imaginable. This is a violent surrealist nightmare that has some really wonderful visuals, and some really bad ones too. I also question the validity of keeping Ripley in the story. I understand why she's there but the character becomes a bit of a joke in this film.
I love it for its nastiness, its gore, its attempt at a new direction for the franchise but it doesn't feel like an Alien film to me. It feels like a separate, big budget entity that borrowed from the Alien series but innovatively. I do like it though and it's underrated.