ALIEN: RESURRECTION REVIEW!!! - THROWBACK SERIES!!

Initial release date: November 26, 1997

Studios: 20th Century Fox/Brandywine Productions

Tagline: Witness the resurrection

It's been more than 200 years ... The beginning has just started

Plot: The saga continues 200 years after Ripley sacrificed herself for the sake of humanity. Her employers long gone, this time it is the military that resurrects the one-woman killing machine through genetic cloning to extract the alien from within her, but during the process her DNA is fused with the queen and then the aliens escape. Now Ripley must decide where her allegiance lies.

Cast

Sigourney Weaver - Ripley

Winona Ryder - Call

Dominique Pinon - Vreiss

Ron Perlman - Johner

Coary Dourdon - Christie

Michael Wincott - Elgyn

Kim Flowers - Hillard

Dan Hedaya - General Perez

J.E. Freeman - Dr. Wren

Brad Dourif - Gediman

Raymond Cruz - Distephano

Leland Orser - Purvis

Writer: Joss Whedon (The Avengers; Avengers; Age of Ultron; the dude that ruined Justice League)

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Rated R for strong sci-fi violence and gore, some grotesque images, and for language (109 minutes)

Finally wrapping up my first look of the original Alien movies. For right now I am holding off on the cross-over movies and the prequel movies to another time. And, the other night I took a look at the 1997 sequel Alien: Resurrection, which was only meh at best ... but Alien 3 is kinda better than Resurrection (not by much).

The first half of the original movies are quite entertaining and the intensity of the movies make them feel believable. Now, Alien 2 can be a little entertaining, but lacked some of the intrigue that the first two movies delivered. Alien: Resurrection, however, is the entry of the series that really dropped the ball (and I didn't use that phrase because of Ripley's basketball skills in this movie).

The action in this movie isn't THAT bad and the highlight of the movie actually comes from Ron Perlman's sort of humorous lines that he has during the movie. There is one scene that features Ripley (actually a clone of her) that sees other clones and has a bit of a breakdown. Towards the ending of the movie, the Alien Queen gives birth to a Ripley/Xenomorph hybrid and the hybrid goes after the Ripley clone, which is also sort of cool.

Other than that, the 1997 sequel is honestly kinda cheesy. There are a few bits that almost gives the movie a "B" movie vibe. The Ripley character being brought back as a clone is sort of a cool way to bring the iconic character back. But, there are some parts that makes the character a little off. If you have ever seen the movie, at least you can see that the Ripley clones does have some basketball skills.

MY RANKING OF THE ALIEN MOVIES (1979-1997):

1. ALIENS

2. ALIEN

3. ALIEN 3

4. ALIEN: RESURRECTION

HERE ARE SOME FUN TIDBITS FOR ALIEN: RESURRECTION!

• Sigourney Weaver originally refused to do a fourth movie. When asked why she changed her mind, she replied, "They basically drove a dump truck full of money to my house."

• When pre-production was underway, the original Alien Queen couldn't be located and the molds that were used to build the original were damaged beyond usefulness. Fortunately, the original life-sized puppet was located ... in the personal collection of an avid Alien fan.

• Weaver was paid $11 million to come back as Ripley, which was the entire budget of Alien (not adjusted for inflation).

• The original idea for the movie was for Newt (the little girl from Aliens) to be cloned, not Ripley. She was to have considerable strength and fighting skills, so Joss Whedon was brought in, as he had experience writing an action series featuring a young heroine with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Whedon wrote a thirty page treatment, but the studio was concerned that fans wouldn't accept an Alien movie without the Ripley character. When Weaver agreed to return, the initial story was scrapped. *** Honestly bringing back the fan-favorite Newt character would have been a good idea***

• Impressed with his work as a screenwriter, 20th Century Fox hired Whedon to write the film's script. Whedon's initial screenplay had a third act on Earth, with a final battle for Earth itself. Whedon wrote five versions of the final act, none of which ended up in the film.

• The film was released in the US and Canada on November 26, 1997. Debuting at No. 2 behind Flubber, Alien: Resurrection grossed $25 million in its first five days - $16 million over the first weekend. It went on to gross $47.8 million domestic, the least successful of the Alien series in that market.

• It was well-received internationally, however, with a gross of $113.6 million, bringing it's worldwide total gross to $161.4 million.

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