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Alien Resurrection |  | Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  350 reviews
Sales Rank: 10679
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 109 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D4110433D
UPC: 086162000768
EAN: 0086162000768
ASIN: B00000ILDG
Theatrical Release Date: November 26, 1997
Release Date: January 2, 2007
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Perhaps these films are like the Star Trek movies: The even-numbered episodes are the best ones. Certainly this film (directed by French stylist Jean-Pierre Jeunet) is an improvement over Alien 3, with a script that breathes exciting new life into the franchise. This chapter is set even further in the future, where scientists on a space colony have cloned both the alien and Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), who died in Alien 3; in doing so, however, they've mixed alien DNA with Ripley's human chromosomes, which gives Ripley surprising power (and a bad attitude). A band of smugglers comes aboard only to discover the new race of aliens--and when the multi-mouthed melonheads get loose, no place is safe. But, on the plus side, they have Ripley as a guide to help them get out. Winona Ryder is on hand as the smugglers' most unlikely crew member (with a secret of her own), but this one is Sigourney's all the way. --Marshall Fine
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/09/2008
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 *Plonk* November 2, 2009
D. Mikels (Skunk Holler)
Greed. 'Twas the only reason to make this mockery of the storied Alien franchise. "Let's throw something together and link it to 'Alien'," studio executives must have been saying, "and soak up as much doe as we can until word-of-mouth kills it." And therefore ALIEN: RESURRECTION was made, with a disinterested Sigourney Weaver and enough nonsense to overrun a lunatic asylum--and a howler for an ending only too appropriate (the monster gets flushed away).
Following the last noble installment, it is now, like, 100, or 200, or something-hundred, years later; there is no Ripley--but there is a clone of her, merged with some DNA from the queen alien herself. So now Ripley is this ticked off superhuman with a perpetual smirk suggesting Weaver was under the impression ALIEN: RESURRECTION wasn't a serious offering, but satire. If only it had been. Of course, the alien itself has been cloned, and scientists are now breeding it as the ultimate military weapon--all under the foolish notion they can "control" this pesky acid-bleeder. A band of (yawn) smugglers comes aboard, the alien runs amuck, most of the snide military folks get their comeuppance, Weaver looks bored, then the nonsense ending. There. Just saved you some green.
Yes, there is a supporting cast; it looks just as ambivalent as this film's star. Winona Ryder wanders about with an irritatingly confused expression; she only changes it when she encounters Ripley, changing to an expression of wanton desire (if she and Weaver had liplocked maybe they could have salvaged some of this turkey). Brad Dourif is his usual creepy self, name me a movie Dan Hedaya has not been in, and Ron Perlman looks like the poster boy for halitosis. ALIEN: RESURRECTION is just awful, and in no way should be associated with the other three remarkable predecessors. When it comes to this final installment, heed the advice of George Carlin: "It's b/s. . .and it's bad for ya."
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
 Better with Time September 15, 2009
Andrew (Illinois)
I purchased this item (and the entire series) as a Collector's Edition because I was hesitant to buy the Quadrilogy (due to the rumored compression errors).
I'm rating this 4 out of 5 stars because of the packaging, which is a flimsy digipak.
A cardboard flap on the right holds the booklet inside the inner sleeve. The discs themselves snap into plastic cases glued to the back of the cardboard sleeve, which folds up like a letter that slides into the main case.
The biggest annoyance to the packaging is that the back of each sleeve is covered in a piece of artwork printed on a flimsy sheet of paper that's glued to the back of the it and held in place by a gob of adhesive. This actually came off when I tried to pull the DVD sleeve out.
As for playback, it wasn't flawless (to my immediate dismay). After 53:32, disc 7 skipped while playing the Special Edition of the movie. The DVD continued to spin in my player until I hit stop. I then re-loaded the disc and selected the same scene ("Ripley Comes Through"), let it play up to the same point, and never encountered the problem again. I actually played the scene three additional times without it skipping so I suspect it has something to do with how the DVD was mastered, because it seems like there's a slight jump at 53:33.
I hadn't seen this movie in a long time and it was better than I remembered, especially with the new 8 minutes of additional footage (which contains an alternate opening sequence and ending).
Disc Two seemed to play fine, as I watched about 6 of the documentaries. My favorite was "In The Zone: The Basketball Scene."
Despite the shoddy packaging, the 2003 cut of Alien Resurrection is well worth the purchase alone.
Pretty Good September 4, 2009
Justin T. Klauss
the movie was very interesting but i was disappointed about the ending... i was hoping for more alien action and the end just wasnt that great... other than that pretty good
 my fav. Alien movie is now mine! muahaha! August 10, 2009
Amy Faunce (toledo, ohio United States)
I wasn't expecting this to come via UPS cause I always got things from Amazon via USPS, so it was a good thing I was home when my package came. It was in a brown paper thingy and wasn't packaged very well inside (no protective wrapping), but the movie was fine and it played fine, so it's all good!
Strange and provocative vision of a post-human future June 24, 2009
Nathan Andersen (Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What people forget when they respond to this film is that Alien 3 shut down the series, very deliberately and very conclusively. Not only did Ripley die, but the driving concerns of the series that were set up in the first film had been addressed. So there was nowhere to go but in a radically new direction, and that's what Jean-Pierre Jeunet did. While the first films used the aliens and the technological context in which they appeared to address the question what makes us specifically human, this new contribution to the series is more interested in the question of a possible "post-human" future.
In Alien the enemy was not really the monster. The monster's unique method of reproduction merely served to highlight the "human condition": that we are vulnerable, that our bodies are ill-equipped for survival except in the most congenial of circumstances, that they are subject to violation by organic and inorganic forces outside of us. The idea of being "violated" through the mouth and "impregnated" by a monster is horrible, but that possibility serves to highlight our dependency upon science and technology in order to stay alive (even her on Earth), and our increasing "alienation" through technology from the natural world and from the evolutionary struggle for survival. Ash (the robot scientist) and Mother (the artificially intelligent computer that kept them alive and gave instructions) and the Company (that treats human life as expendible) were the real enemies of Alien. Ripley was a hero because she didn't think scientific fact and material gain trump human empathy (her concern for a cat) and human interests.
Aliens takes the same ideas and the same basic storyline and expands it: more military, more weapons, a girl and a sensitive soldier instead of a cat, but ends on a familiar note. Ripley ejects the threat out of the airlock and is able to escape with her body and her principles intact. This relatively optimistic resolution of both the first and the second film is what Fincher's third film rejected, by impregnating Ripley and killing off the girl and the boyfriend during the opening credits. This time the issue is raised onto a theological plane and the question is whether we can find meaning in a universe where not only are their alien forces beyond our control that can destroy us but that, as a general rule even if there are exceptions, we humans either can't seem to help ourselves or don't much care as we harm others for our own gain. Ripley seems to find meaning in her final act of destroying the alien and herself, thus saving humanity from the careless greed that would use such a monster without regard to the human consequences. With that act, while not all questions the series raises are completely resolved, the series seems to reach a logical end, having adressed gender, reproduction, humanity, science, technology, war, all in the context of defining the human over and against those alien forces that threaten constantly to overwhelm humanity.
With Alien Resurrection, the series starts again, but in a new direction. Sigourney Weaver is no longer playing Ripley, but an Alien/Human cloned hybrid who somehow remembers something of her former incarnation but no longer possesses the same kind of horror of the alien. In fact what horrifies her most are images of her own creation, visions of the technological process that brought her into being. Whereas the first three films aimed for a certain kind of realism, Alien Resurrection verges on the surrealistic nightmare landscape of Jeunet's The City of Lost Children and Delicatessen. What we see may seem silly or strange or skewed, but I think that is because we are intended to get a skewed, or post-human, vision of the human attempt to control the monster, that would seem strange and absurd through the eyes of the no-longer quite human Ripley and the android Call (Winona Rider).
Admittedly, this is a brief and undeveloped defense of the film - and in this brief form it is probably guilty of over-intellectualizing the films, and "forgetting" that the primary appeal of these films is not "intellectual" but visceral -- but I hope it suggests another perspective: that rather than think Alien Resurrection is a failure because it doesn't live up to the terms of the series as Ridley Scott set them up, we should consider the possibility that a "resurrection" of the series may require a reworking of its basic assumptions and style. I admit to being heavily influenced in my opinions about this film by Stephen Mulhall's excellent little book On Film - while I disagree with some details of his account, I think his general approach to thinking about the Alien series as a whole is quite intelligent and compelling.)
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