Too weird, wet and horny to be widely accepted, Alien Resurrection nevertheless captures Jeunet's unique stuff, Whedon's trademark quips, and brings its own flavour to the Alien franchise

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 23, 2025

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s otherwise truly pathetic crash and burn of the xenomorph-driven franchise.

| Mar 6, 2025

[A] missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 15, 2024

Let's see: It's a big improvement over No. 3, not as good as No. 2 but on a par with or slightly better than No. 1. Anything else you want to know about Alien Resurrection?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 7, 2024

Alien Resurrection checks in with enough slime, gore and scary monster-flick moments to satisfy undemanding audiences. But it's an ugly, animated corpse of a movie stitched together from the other three films in the series.

| Aug 7, 2024

[A] cold but sufficiently nightmarish and high-powered proof that there's life in the old franchise yet.

| Aug 7, 2024

A wonderfully contradictory film -- it's trashy, brutal, viciously ironic and highly imaginative.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2024

The sardonic bits work, but there's none of the old grandeur and depth, and not much horror either. The smell of evil is missing.

| Aug 7, 2024

The fourth in the Alien series is the slimiest, the funniest and the most perverse -- which is to say, bring it on!

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2024

Alien Resurrection displays flashes of glum beauty, scary power and carefully titrated humor before the whole grisly thing turns to gibberish... It's time for Ripley to retire.

| Aug 7, 2024

The sense of mystery and anticipation that defined Ridley Scott's original Alien here dissolves into a series of more or less overt encounters with no more poetry or suspense than an evening of professional wrestling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 7, 2024

Alien Resurrection is just so wild, entertaining, and ambitious compared to Alien 3, and the subsequent sequels, I have to applaud it...

| Aug 7, 2024

Jeunet has created a striking behemoth of a spaceship, a dark, menacing machine that is ripping at the seams with the throbbing of deadly biology.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2024

It's not the beast that makes Alien Resurrection an interesting movie. It's Weaver and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's penchant for offering up movies that are a visual feast.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 7, 2024

Welcome to the movies of the late nineties: rage without purpose, threat without meaning, horror without relief.

| Aug 7, 2024

The trick is to clad the bare bones of this Freudian scarefest with the fleshly encrustations of the Bosch-like hell inside the spaceship where all of it happens. A good choice of interior decorator is Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

| Aug 7, 2024

Alien Resurrection continues its predecessors' fascination with death and redemption, but it's Weaver who, once again, redeems the series.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2024

A walking-zombie sequel that looks and smells like a corpse brought back from the dead.

| Original Score: C | Aug 7, 2024

It's a wonderful change of pace for Weaver, who gives the movie much of its spunk. The same can't be said for Ryder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2024

Although Alien Resurrection offers some chills, it's low on thrills and even lower on creating any emotional center to hold the story together.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 7, 2024