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Alien: Resurrection
Alien 4 / Alien - Die Wiedergeburt
USA 1997
produced by
Bill Badalato, Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill, Sigourney Weaver (co) for Brandywine, 20th Century Fox
directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, Kim Flowers, Dan Hedaya, J.E. Freeman, Brad Dourif, Raymond Cruz, Leland Orser, Carolyn Campbell, Marlene Bush, David St. James, Rodney Mitchell, Robert Faltisco, David Rowe, Garrett House, Rod Damer, Mark Mansfield, Daniel Raymont, Cris D'Annunzio, Steven Gilborn, Robert Bastens, Rico Bueno, Alex Lorre, Ronald Ramessar, Nicole Fellows, Tom Woodruff jr
written by Joss Whedon, based on characters created by Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, music by John Frizzell, visual effects supervised by Erik Henry, Richard E. Hollander, Pitof, original alien design by H.R. Giger
Alien
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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About 200 years have passed since the events of Alien 3 - which
ended with an alien-impregnated Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) sacrificing
herself to make sure to erradicate the alien species once and for all. But
Ripley's body is cloned in a secret experiment on a military space station
just outside of law's reach by doctors Wren (J.E. Freeman) and Gediman
(Brad Dourif) - just to keep alienkind from dying out ... and use it to
create the ultimate fighting machine of course. Of course, the doctors
succeed to recreate the aliens, and the fact that Ripley is brought back
into the world of the living along with the aliens and that he has adopted
some alien powers along with her memory of old is a rather obscure side
effect. Now this of course sounds like trouble enough, but then General
Perez, military leader of the spaceship, has also hired a ragtag team of
outlaws (Michael Wincott, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan,
Dominique Pinon, Kim Flowers) to do some business with alien DNA on the
side, not knowing that this team of outlaws actually plans to take over
the whole ship and one of them (Ryder) is actually a known terrorist - and
an android, as it would turn out only later. Thing is, in a rather
predictable move, the aliens soon manage to escape their holding cells,
and soon decimate the humans on the ship, and Ripley might be the only one
who might know how to fight them ... but she has become socially awkward
and it's unclear if anybody - military, scientific personnel and outlaws
alike - can actually trust her. Still, it's a race for their lives and for
humankind to make it through the ship to a rescue shuttle before the
aliens kill them or the ship crashes into earth to destroy alienkind ... So
ok, Alien: Resurrection is not as great as either Alien
or Aliens, but it definitely is a step up from Alien 3 and
spins a good yarn that might at times be nonsensical, but it's also very
tight, with well-placed shocks, plenty of suspense, and even bits of
humour, carried by a strong cast playing strong characters - and the
visuals of the thing are pretty much breathtaking, merging futurism and
steam punk rather nicely without drawing too much attention to themselves
but creating just the right atmosphere for the story to unfold. That
said, this film is not a classic, as it carries the burden of the films
before it, but it's rather great and slightly eccentric genre
entertainment!
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