woefully misjudged

Rating: 9/10 (14 May 2000)

woefully misjudged and disliked upon its initial release(although reviews were mostly favourable here in the uk)this is my personal favourite of the sequels to the best of the films(The original of course)i know this is a rare opinion i wont mention my least favourite for fear of being stoned in the streets!resurrection takes the basic template and twists everything wonderfully off kilter,characters are not what they seem ,the aliens are not true genetically perfect and the (admittedly bizarre )newborn is truly horrific,not necessarily for how it looks but more for what it is a twisted human /alien amalgam,i know people thought it was dumb but why would a hybrid have to be aestetically perfect .granted there are moments that i wondered where certain scenes or dialogue had been jettisoned ,there are some huge holes in the plot but there always are in any film if u watch them enough,but generally i thought this was a terrific sci fi horror movie ,great performance from the iconic sigourney weaver who just gets better all the time,terrific set pieces,the underwater chase rises above anything in the others and the best looking aliens since the original movie,i hated the crappy re-design for aliens,i do miss some of the scenes cut from the original script like the gun fight in the nest and the attempted mating scene with ripley and the newborn,but with hindsight maybe this would have been too bizarre to film correctly,so to sum up,i could go on and on,this is the best looking and to me the most exciting of them all,as an aside try to spot all the birth and religious imagery in the film never mentioned to my knowledge before,feel free to contact me if u cant see it