Nice film for an evening in front of the TV.

Rating: 5/10 (27 March 2004)

Alien Resurrection. 1997-USA-20th Century Fox.
Attention may contain spoilers.
This is the fourth and last (until 2004) part of the Alien films. It is a horror/action movie that has a lot of interesting ideas, but at the end, to the viewer's disappointment, fails to develop them into an interesting plot and a good movie.
Special effects, sound, music and the atmosphere are just perfect. Some problems appear with some minor detail, for example towards the end we see the spaceship Auriga passing by Jupiter with a speed that seems to be close to the speed our 20th century satellites use, but we are informed that in less than 40 minutes the ship will land on Earth. I don't remember exactly the distance between Earth and Jupiter but it has to be an hour of light more or less, which means that they used a speed close to the speed of light. Warp speed? Then why did they have to use cryosleep? Or another one where we see two Aliens attack a third one killing it so the acid they have for blood to make a hole through the floor and escape. Ten minutes later we see an Alien spit acid and the question is, if they can spit acid why did they have to kill one of their own?
Scenes with action or horror are well directed, but the good work ends here since the rest of the film fails to give anything more. It fails to talk about the special relationship developed between the Aliens and Ripley. As it fails to give life to the military and scientists aboard the vessel, they are just puppets waiting to die just to make a good action scene.
Sigourney Weaver as Ripley is below average, a disappointment for the heroin of the other three Alien, but it is to consider the difficulty of the part as the complete failure of the director of giving something more than action.
Average Winona Ryder as Call. The part was ideal for something more, an android more human than humans.
Good are the performances by Ron Pearlman as Johner and Brad Dourif as Gediman.
Bottom Line: Nice film for an evening in front of the TV, Cinema for the fans of science fiction.
Film Rate: TV (5/10)
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Actors Rate:
Sigourney Weaver as Ripley: 4/10
Winona Ryder as Call: 5/10
Ron Pearlman as Johner: 6/10
Brad Dourif as Gediman: 7/10
Dominique Pinon as Vriess: 5/10
Dan Hadaya as General Perez: 5/10