Alien: Resurrection

This is the first movie in the Alien franchise that makes no attempt to be a horror film. Instead, it’s a blackly comic action movie, and I think it sort of works. Sort of.

There’s a lot of handwaving away of certain practical elements like the source of DNA used to clone Ripley, or how her DNA includes the DNA of the alien, or how, if they had both, they couldn’t just clone the alien and not Ripley. But, hey! If they don’t do this, then there’s no movie! So, handwaving is somewhat appropriate.

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