Alien Resurrection Review

Review of Alien Resurrection (1997) by screenqueeen: 👍 3.5/5

Once again I was reminded that this was written by Whedon so I took that into consideration mainly by embracing the lizard-brain nature of coolness it constructs. I'm mostly surprised how well it addresses the continuing themes of motherhood, also examining the act of abortion particularly as a mercy. I want to believe that Jeunet threw as much of Whedon's gibbering tongue-in-cheek dialogue as he could out the window and kept his self-congratulatory feminist writing approach in check with the actual women in the film.

I'm mesmerized by the menace Weaver manages to manifest here and can't believe for a second it was all as it read on the page, she's too intuitive a performer for that. Brad Dourif as an awkwardly obsessed geneticist fetishizing the Xenomorph also brings another layer of entertainment to this, even in his series of questions that he asks Ripley 8 where we see how sharp the precipice of his attraction falls off when veering too far towards that territory. Great basketball scene.