Get used to this sequel

Rating: Null/10 (24 January 2001)

It's funny that our american friends are the ones who disliked this movie the most. Well - not funny, but interesting and logical.
Jeunet is my god, I adore his movies. Nevertheless: I was kinda disappointed after having seen Alien Resurrection for the first time - even though there were many "holy" moments or extremely typical parts of dialogs ("Back to earth? S**t, I'd rather stay here then... earth... that s**t sphere!"). - Or like fighting with extreme firepower against one of the aliens: After the frigging beast's gone the panic still takes hold, especially for the one that's been shooting like a lost idiot - but, the alien's finally dead and the guy keeps shouting while his eyes catch up a innocent little sweet spider hanging on it's sweet little net - KAWUMM - also being shot in fury...!
The characters in the first two parts of the alien series had been much more realistic than in Part three and four. In fact, this impression got lost after the first movie which was handling the story with the appropriate seriousness of a crew that's acting totally realistic in this purely fictious environment. Same for part two - But I hated to see too many aliens getting killed too easily. It had been that damned hard work to get rid of the beast that'd scared the hell out of me in part one. Good thing to see in ALIENS that - at least - the courage and heroesness was kinda totally lost after the first real contact between the overcool space marines and our biting babes. I don't like part three. The problem is probably the problem I'm having generally with Mister Fincher's movies. None of'em really sucked me in but I can't tell exactly why. (Se7en, The game...) The characters in Alien Resurrection are much more cartoonish and there are brilliantly shot, but maybe too hero-like gunfiring secquences. (watch christie handling his special double-gun...). That was very confusing when I saw the movie for the first time. I love gore but found it just too hard sometimes. But that kind of violence can also be understood kinda humouristic 'cause it's mostly that nasty that I felt so sorry for certain people and had - as a weird consequence of it - to laugh about it. I think this movie is a WONDERFUL addition to the others even if it makes it hard to follow Ripley's space odissey. FOX Int. seems to be very proud for their alien works. I believe to have felt the importance to do a special part four, not just some expected sequel. Well, here it is. Now it's european humour and things are more weird, it's another movie language and a non-typically-american-style that's telling us the story on the USS Auriga... that's why (especially) our american friends problably do have their worries 'bout it.