ALIEN: RESURRECTION



USA, 1997, 108 min, color

The fourth film in the "Alien" series takes place aboard an immense ship, the Auriga, where General Perez heads a staff of 7 science officers and 42 enlisted, all employed by United Systems Military (replacing the Company of the earlier films). The time is 200 years after the events of Alien 3. Scientists researching the aliens need hosts, and they rely on space mercenaries to find bodies for them. The research requires an Alien Queen specimen, so Ellen Ripley has been cloned from preserved blood samples. Later, a commercial freighter, the Betty, arrives with a load of human hosts with alien eggs. Problems begin when the mercenaries take over the Auriga, and aliens escape to massacre humans.

"The "Alien" movies may be little more than slasher movies in space, yet equipped with strong, imaginative directors, each has proved distinctive and surprisingly resonant. Jeunet, the series' supreme fantasist, plunges deep into the nightmarish genetic whirlpool concocted by screenwriter Joss Whedon."