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Actually a pretty decent movie...


...if watching with a bag of popcorn.

Although maintaining the atmosphere and immersion of the previous Alien movies, taking place some 300 years in the future where Weyland-Yutani was outright purchased by Wal-Mart (literally), it keeps most of the Alien style of filming intact...

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I kinda like this movie. It feels more like a Robocop movie with its campiness than an Alien movie though. I tend to view this movie as its own thing with no connection to the other films, like Alien vs Predator. I can enjoy it thinking about it that way.

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I agree. Not nearly as bad as people make out. I personally don't rate the ending highly, but the rest of the film is pretty solid.

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It's a fun romp into comic book territory which is simply a different take by the director to play with the flavours available to him.

I enjoyed it but it is most certainly completely different in tone to all the other Alien related movies.

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No it's not.

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Agreed. By the time this film hit theaters, I had come to appreciate that the series was going with a different director with each film and therefore, a different type/style of Alien movie. Each of the first four are uniquely constructed, that each stands on its own quite well, and still managed to hold the meandering character development together somehow. There are many characters and different iterations of Ripley, but I don't find it confusing.

I thought Resurrection developed the idea of the Alien adapting to any vessel and/or environment the best with the introduction of the aquatic Alien. I also was never more terrified of any of the monsters more than I felt with The Baby, which I find absolutely horrific.

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I like it better than Alien 3 and the underwater chase scene is superb.

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Yes, it was ok.

The beginning was excellent, especially when the group now enters the ship. The ending was a little ehh

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Yeah it's alright. I would give it a 7/10.

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