Alien Resurrection: Critic Reviews

The movie never develops consistent momentum, despite sporadically notable passages.

It brings a mordant, crackerjack wit to the world of chest-busting, head-ripping creepazoids from beyond.

It satisfactorily recycles the great surprises that made the first movie so powerful. And most significantly, it makes a big hoot of the whole business.

There is not a single shot in the movie to fill one with wonder.

In mood, tone and imagery, this fourth installment in the esteemed horror series is a fascinating film under director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. But it's virtually impossible to follow.

A lot of fun to watch, and easy to surrender to in the moment.

So campy that it almost plays like a sendup of the series. It is to 'Alien' what 'The Bride of Frankenstein' was to other 1930s Frankenstein movies, and it even shares some of the same themes.

If you consider 'Alien' and 'Aliens' to be the main course, then 'Alien Resurrection' is leftovers.

If you need to read a review to decide if you want to see "Alien Resurrection," you absolutely shouldn't be going.

Simply put, Jean-Pierre Jeunet was the absolute wrong choice for this film. His award-winning quirky French visual sensibilities don't mesh well with Joss Whedon's meat-and-potatoes script.

Grotesque carnage, vile characters; steer clear.

This fourth chapter comes off as the first fully postmodern Alien film: not Alien multiplied or cubed, but synthetically reawakened, groggy enough to sleepwalk through our memories of the first three, as in a dream.

After the disappointing Alien 3, this fourth film in the franchise represents a marked improvement, but it fails to match the level established in the first two films.

Un de ces films dont il faut savoir s'impregner de l'idee de depart pour etre en mesure d'en apprecier les ebats a leur juste valeur.

Jeunet and Whedon deliver the alien-attack scenes with a spin and a wink.

Has more visual flair than any of George Lucas' Star Wars films, and at times is almost as fun.

Poor Sigourney Weaver! Why does she succumb to the temptation of making these movies?

It's time they quit killing the aliens, and just killed the Alien series altogether. ... How the mighty have fallen.

Moviegoers who expect more surprise and mystery from the grisly and suspenseful sci-fi "Alien" series will be disappointed.

The much-maligned last part in the Alien quadrilogy should be approached as the comic book actioneer that it is.

...it's two hundred years down the road from Alien 3, and Ripley is long gone. If only. (Alien Quadrilogy)

Great effects, dismal story. Sigourney phones in a paycheck. Why is Ryder even in this? Ron Perlman is the only bright spot in a forgettable cast.

Unfortunately, Weaver and Jeunet's efforts are short changed by the ineptness of Joss Whedon's script, that seems to find a way to make action sequences unexciting.

The film is so insistently formulaic there is hardly a moment when you don't know exactly what's going to happen.

... despite more Catholic imagery than a mid-period Madonna video, the movie isn't heavy-handed ...