Sigourney Weaver: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked
4. Ripley - Alien: Resurrection (1997)
"Better than Alien 3 but worse than the first two." The above is the consensus on Alien 4 that most fans of the original films usually come to, and while Resurrection certainly did many things better than its predecessor, it certainly wasn't great. Set 200 years after the events of Alien 3, the iconic character of Ripley reappears after her death at the end of Alien 3. Through the use of cloning, Ripley is resurrected with the curious side effect of her sharing traits with the xenomorphs that she hates so very much due to the alien embryo she had inside her at the end of the previous film. Queue an almost two-hour-long film that uses such an explanation to give Ripley an entirely new personality and audiences some unnecessarily gory and over-the-top scenes involving the most violent extraterrestrials in cinema history. On the one hand, watching Sigourney Weaver relish her opportunity to let loose with a character she made famous is extremely enjoyable to watch, but on the other, Ripley's new personality is the complete opposite to what audiences know and love her for and it just didn't work. The presence of alien blood in her system if a poor explanation, and the entire film as a whole reeks of being a desperate attempt to cash-in one last time on a franchise that has gone from genre defining to utter disaster.
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