Ellen Ripley and the last alien known to humanity died together 200 years ago. The biological remains of the previous three battles are a few bloodstains on the prison colony where Ripley carried the gruesome offspring of an alien queen. Time swept away the unfeeling company as well. But humanity's nature seems to have changed very little. There are still special interest groups, this time the military, who want to use the barely vincible beings for their own purposes, ignoring the fact that the aliens do not submit to control, but bring only certain death.

 
• Screenplay writer Joss Whedon hit upon the perfect way to get around the difficult problem of how to bring back the indespensible Ellen Ripley convincingly from her irreversable death for the fourth in this series. It is not the old Ripley who once more battles away, but the effects of meddling with her genes is in the centre of the action, from the opening credits to the very impressive showdown, and gives the latest Alien film a completely new feel. But the important elements of the previous films are present, so that the many fans will feel horribly and happily at home. Alien: Resurrection is not restricted to a planned escape and fight, but shows a structured plot.

Delicatessen director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has not forgotten his talent for timing and tension. The scene where both the smugglers escape the soldiers and the aliens escape the scientists cannot be beaten for perfect chaos. It hardly matters that two centuries seem not to have affected the cinematic feel. To see Ripley, the first great action heroine, now, at 300 years, the oldest woman in the universe (thanks, ironically, to her nightmarish encounters with the aliens), fighting for her life once more is worth the price of the most expensive cinema ticket. Let us allow her a little more time alive to relax a bit – as long as we don't have to wait too long for the next piece of action.

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