Alien Resurrection

Story

Perhaps these films are like the Star Trek movies: The even-numbered episodes are the best ones. Certainly this film (directed by French stylist Jean-Pierre Jeunet) is an improvement over Alien 3, with a script that breathes exciting new life into the franchise. This chapter is set even further in the future, where scientists on a space colony have cloned both the alien and Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), who died in Alien 3; in doing so, however, they've mixed alien DNA with Ripley's human chromosomes, which gives Ripley surprising power (and a bad attitude). A band of smugglers comes aboard only to discover the new race of aliens--and when the multi-mouthed melonheads get loose, no place is safe. But, on the plus side, they have Ripley as a guide to help them get out. Winona Ryder is on hand as the smugglers' most unlikely crew member (with a secret of her own), but this one is Sigourney's all the way. --Marshall Fine

DVD Features

• Interactive Menus
  
• Production featurette
  
• Behind-the-scenes footage
  
• Interviews with cast & crew
  
• Theatrical trailer
  
• Scene Selection
  
• THX Certified

Cast

Dan Hedaya
Ron Perlman
Winona Ryder
Sigourney Weaver
Michael Wincott
Dominique Pinon