Aliens vs. Predators: Ranking The Films From Worst To Best
7. Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Unnecessary but inevitable, Alien: Resurrection was the film that put a pin in the forward continuation of the standalone Alien franchise that hasnt been pulled out by 20th Century Fox since. Released in 1997, Resurrection feels like a brightly-colored, less-morose response to David Finchers Alien 3, haphazardly assembling parts of its three predecessors in an attempt to clone their successes but failing to be even half the film they were. Love it or hate it, Alien 3 brought a sense of closure to Ellen Ripleys story that didnt need to be tampered with. Any future Alien film, though undoubtedly having to live under the shadow of what came before it, couldve gone anywhere and to any time with its titular creature, but Resurrection instead chose to bring Ripley back into the fold through the power of cloning. Sigourney Weaver does give it her all and shes joined by a mostly decent supporting cast, such as Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif and Winona Ryder, who all fight to try and make it work. The film also has several bright spots, including a great sequence where Ripley discovers the previous failed cloning attempts, a chestburster sequence that stands as one of the series craziest and a neat sequence in which the Xenomorphs coordinate to escape their holding cell. Unfortunately, the bad outweighs the good, with the CGI creatures looking pretty bad, the Xenomorphs being inexplicably and humorously wet and slimy, the existence of the newborn and a general feeling that the film was made for the sole purpose of keeping the franchise bringing in the money rather than an attempt at making a genuinely worthy installment.
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