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Alien: Resurrection
The fourth film in the Alien series finds a genetically mutated Ripley hatching a new Queen
Cloned by the United Systems Military two hundred years after her death in Alien 3, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has become a cold-hearted, post-human anti-heroine whose involvement with a gang of space pirates (headed by Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman and Dominique Pinon) is ambivalent at best. Caught between a hatred for the stupidity of man and the knowledge that she has now become the genetic mother of a new strain of xenomorph, Ripley finds herself in a unique position. Or at least she would, if director Jean-Pierre Jeunet managed to conjure anything out of Joss Whedon's limp script. Toying with genetic engineering and motherhood, the 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' writer is not up to the task of carrying this franchise through a fourth instalment after the patchiness of Alien 3. He delivers a badly structured, disappointingly diffuse story full of disparate parts that never gel together. Many of the visuals of Alien Resurrection are reliably striking though, thanks to the reliably inventive director who here went it alone for his first Hollywood experience after the two French hits Delicatessen and City Of Lost Children. Notable are scenes of Ripley finding earlier, failed clones of herself - hideous abominations in test tubes; and a sequence wherein the aliens reveal themselves to be as agile under water as on land. That said, the "newborn" alien hybrid that appears at the end is frankly ridiculous. Verdict The weakest entry in the series, this fails to convince or impress with a badly judged script full of disparate elements that fail to gel together. |
