Fresh, Hip, Less Scary
Rating: 8 of 10 
'Alien Resurrection' continues the previous chain of thoughts with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and composer John Frizzell. Although it seems very much like an artificially constructed resurrection of the Alien Saga on the big screen, this one clearly gets near to its predecessor.
This time we have two female lead characters, and that's kind of funny because it aired almous synchronously with 'Tomorrow Never Dies', and it seems that Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder wanted to show that James Bond is nothing compared to them, and they seem to be right. However, the amount of "girl power" in this film may not be that surprising after all if we take into consideration that the film was written by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Brad Dourif makes a fine addition to the cast, there is even kind of a comedy effect as he tries to tame an alien, which - of course - ends in a disaster. But again, the most shocking moment is the scene when Ripley visits her clones. Again it is mankind who inhabits evil, and the death of the alien-human-hybrid-baby at the end of the film gets some tragic touch, I even felt sorry for this fellow. There is just one question left - will there be a Number 5?
January 29th, 1998 / March 15th, 2000
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