Alien Resurrection (Amazon Video)

Clearly the worst of the series. The acting is stiff. The directing is contrive and the plot is sometimes childish. However it is an "Alien" movie so it's worth watch. And to be honest it has some of the coolest and most rememberable scenes in the series.

I was so excited when this movie came out. I like the big ideas we see in science fiction, and I wanted to find something great in Ripley's clone. I'd been disappointed by Alien 3 (or, Alien3), and I knew that the idea for this movie was to go with the weird and wonderful (and successful) kinds of concepts that were in Dark Horse Comics' Aliens books at the time, and also to give fans a rip-roaring ride of Aliens-loose-on-a-spaceship with military members, mad scientists, a synthetic with a mission, creepy mercenaries--an adventurous tone bringing the series back to the blockbuster thrills of Aliens.But the movie does not click. In Alien 3, especially its superior Special Edition, we see a lot of humanity, however bleak, and the horror of a new, much faster and more vicious Giger Xenomorph. We meet Dillon, a noble man with a criminal past who approaches all problems from a no-nonsense, religious perspective. His beliefs don't stop him from kicking serious butt when...Read more

Only 4 stars because of the unnecessarily long drawn out mother alien giving birth scene. What a missed opportunity there.