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''Alien: Resurrection'' is a 1997 American science fiction action horror film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and written by Joss Whedon. It is the fourth installment in the ''Alien'' film series, and was filmed at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles, California. In the film, which is set 200 years after the preceding installment ''Alien 3'' (1992), Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is cloned and an Alien queen is surgically removed from her body. The United Systems Military hopes to breed Aliens to study and research on the spaceship ''USM Auriga'', using human hosts kidnapped and delivered to them by a group of mercenaries. The Aliens escape their enclosures, while Ripley and the mercenaries attempt to escape and destroy the ''Auriga'' before it reaches its destination, Earth. ''Alien: Resurrection'' was released on November 26, 1997 and received mixed reviews from film critics. Roger Ebert of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' felt "there is not a single shot in the movie to fill one with wonder",〔 while Desson Thomson of ''The Washington Post'' said the film "satisfactorily recycles the great surprises that made the first movie so powerful".〔 ==Plot== Two hundred years after the events of ''Alien 3'', military scientists on the outer space vessel USM ''Auriga'' create a clone of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) using DNA from blood samples taken before her death. They extract the embryo of an Alien queen that had been growing inside her at the time of her death, raise it, and collect its eggs for further use. The Ripley clone is kept alive for further study. As a result of her DNA being mixed with the Alien's DNA during the cloning process, she develops enhanced strength and reflexes, has acidic blood and a psychic link with the Aliens. A group of mercenaries, Elgyn (Michael Wincott), Johner (Ron Perlman), Christie (Gary Dourdan), Vriess (Dominique Pinon), Hillard (Kim Flowers), and Call (Winona Ryder), arrive in their ship, the ''Betty'', delivering several kidnapped humans in stasis. The military scientists use the kidnapped humans as hosts for the Aliens, raising several adult Aliens for study. The ''Betty'' crew soon encounters Ripley. Call recognizes Ripley's name and tries to kill her, suspecting she may be used to create more Aliens. However, the Aliens have already matured and quickly escape confinement. They damage the ''Auriga'' and kill those crew members who do not manage to evacuate, including General Perez (Dan Hedaya) and Elgyn. Military scientist Dr. Wren (J. E. Freeman) reveals that the ship's default command in an emergency is to return to Earth. Realizing this will unleash the Aliens on Earth, Ripley, the mercenaries, Wren, a Marine named DiStephano (Raymond Cruz), and surviving Alien host Purvis (Leland Orser), decide to head for the ''Betty'' and use it to destroy the ''Auriga''. Along the way, Ripley encounters the previous seven clones, which have all failed. She incinerates them all, after one of them begs her to end her suffering. As the group make their way through the damaged ship, they swim through a flooded kitchen. They are chased by two Aliens. One is killed, while the other snatches Hillard. As they escape the kitchen, the Alien returns and kills Christie, who sacrifices himself to kill the Alien so the others can escape. After Wren betrays the group, Call is revealed to be an android. Using her ability to interface with the ''Auriga'' Ripley is taken to the Alien nest, where she witnesses the Queen, now possessing a womb as a result of the genetic mixture, give birth to a ''Newborn'', a Xenomorph with human traits, such as human teeth, mouth, pale skin color and a human-like face with actual eyes. After killing the queen Alien, the hybrid Alien recognizes Ripley as its mother, before biting the scalp off Dr. Jonathan Gediman (Brad Dourif), a scientist who was captured by the Aliens during the breakout and has been cocooned. Ripley takes advantage of the distraction to escape. She makes her way to the ''Betty''. On the ''Betty'', Call is attacked by the Newborn, which has already arrived. It kills DeStephano when he arrives to help her. Ripley finds her way onto the ''Betty'', and saves Call from the Newborn, which embraces Ripley. Using her acidic blood, Ripley melts the glass of a window. The Newborn is violently sucked through the window due to explosive decompression, while Ripley and Call survive, though Ripley shows an emotional response by sobbing. The countdown on the ''Auriga'' continues as the survivors escape in the ''Betty''. The ''Auriga'' collides with Earth, causing a large explosion. Call and Ripley look out of the port window of the Betty, and watch as the sun sets beyond the clouds. Ripley and Call discuss what they should both do next, with Ripley proclaiming that she is ''a stranger here myself.'' In an alternate ending that is used in some extended adaptions, The ''Betty'' lands in a ruined Paris, and the conversation between Ripley and Call occurs there. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alien: Resurrection」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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