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- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumBy rocketing ahead 200 years from the previous film and jiggering the story cleverly (with a script by Toy Story coscreenwriter Joss Whedon as late-'90s wiseacreish as Alien3 was early-'90s portentous) to create a Ripley reconstructed through a mix of human and alien DNA, Alien Resurrection power-kicks the whole definition of the Horrifying Other into a fresh, deep, exhilaratingly thoughtful, millennium-sensitive direction. [5 Dec 1997, p. 47]
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenJeunet manages a terrific pass in an extended underwater sequence, but, beyond that, he runs out of ideas as we run out of patience.
- Weaver is able to take a schlock conception and turn it into a tour de force. Sky-high and straight-backed, she's imperiously graceful in this film; at times she resembles Martha Graham in the swooping, lyrical severity of her movements.
- 70Film.comJohn HartlFilm.comJohn HartlSo campy that it almost plays like a sendup of the series. It is to Alien what "The Bride of Frankenstein" was to other 1930s Frankenstein movies, and it even shares some of the same themes.
- 70NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenUnder the reins of Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen"), the Alien franchise has lost none of its taste for acid-spewing, flesh-impaling, entrail-dripping gore.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovWeaver essays the new hotmama Ripley with wry, good humor -- you can tell she's having a ball playing this unstoppable die-cast she-wolf.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittHeavy on violence and special effects, light on everything else.
- 50Film ThreatFilm ThreatSigourney gets some good "Rambo" lines, but about halfway through the film her alien super powers go dormant.
- 40Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorWhedon and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen") bend over so far backward to make Weaver's and Ryder's roles beefy that they end up mocking the characters' bravura.
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt's a nine days' wonder, a geek show designed to win a weekend or two at the box office and then fade from memory.