Fourth chapter in "Alien" saga and probably my least favourite, "Alien Resurrection" is set 200 years after the previous movie and has Sigourney Weaver fighting the Aliens with a help of paid mercenary warriors who arrive on a military spaceship where secret experiments are made. This time Weaver is strangely sympathetic to Aliens and eventually we find the reason why. The medical team and government officials are bad guys here and mercenary warriors just a necessary victims that get chewed along the way.
Its back to action - shoot them, run, scream and swim - which is unfortunate because at certain points this saga hinted at deeper, more substantial directions where the story could go. If 1979. original was tense and atmospheric and 1992. version dared to ask some serious questions about faith and redemption, this one avoid anything remotely meaningful and simply goes for pyrotechnics. It also has deeply disturbing final sequence that got stuck in my brain, there is something awful in that even though we understand the creature is not human. Winona Ryder (of all people) has surprisingly strong turn as young member of paid criminals and we gradually find out there is much more to her than her youthful sulkiness. At this point, Weaver is already such unusual character that she is just a resemblance of her previous 1979. self - she is highly effective and a joy to watch but it made me wonder isn't this sort of restrictive pigeonhole, because its hard to watch her in anything else after this (I have to see something else now by her). I perfectly understand her reluctance to continue with the saga because at this point it appears as her character has come to cul-de-sac that comes close to parody.
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