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

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

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

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

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

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

Jean-Pierre Jeunet breathes new life into a creature feature franchise that seemed to have run its course. This comes close to James Cameron's Aliens, which is still the best of the series, but it's certainly the funniest of the lot.

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

Alien Resurrection is creepily beautiful. What we have here is one good-looking, but deathly cold, corpse.

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

[Jean-Pierre Jeunet] mounts a sensational underwater chase through a flooded cargo hold, and reveals a ghastly room full of failed genetic experiments. The finale... is every bit as disgusting as he intended.

| Aug 6, 2024

Whatever points the movie gets for its spectacular design and amazing cinematography are frequently sacrificed to inane dialogue and absurd plot twists.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 6, 2024

One suspects that Jeunet's ideas have been diluted by studio intervention; after a promising start, his overlong third act dwindles into routine tracts of running and screaming.

| Aug 6, 2024

It's the same old story, but it has verve and pizzazz to spare. The progression of the character of Ripley is also ingenious.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2024

In addition to confusing dark humor with vulgarity and a surfeit of ooze, Alien Resurrection commits the cardinal no-no of showing too much.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 6, 2024

Still, if "Resurrection" can't resolve its contradictory impulses, it still can erase Fincher's feel-bad installment from your mind.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 6, 2024

Call me jaded, if you've seen one skull crushed, you've seen them all.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 6, 2024