Alien Resurrection

I actually thought this movie was really good. I mean it is. It’s much darker than the other previous alien films and more violent. This movie didn’t have as much bad language as the third. The only partly bad thing about this movie was the characters. All of the characters were mean and honestly brutal towards each other.

Watch out for sci-fi monster violence and gore, gruesome images and language

Creepy, cool, bloody, gruesome and tons of swearing. Not for kids

I saw this in the theater when I was 17, and afterwards I wished I hadn't seen it because it was very violent, very disgusting, and disturbing. I had already seen the first 3 "Alien" movies before I saw this, and this is by far the worst "Alien" movie.

SPOILERS ALERT: Don't read it if you haven't watched this movie (and you have to watch it before even deciding it for your kids). Well, at first - this is not classical Alien style gothic horror, no. It still has the dark ambient atmosphere of doom and despair, but it's packed into, in fact - 3 hours timeframe, before the nightmare spaceship will reach the Earth. And this is, probably, the only moment when human characters had shown any humanity - they do care about the Earth and the inevitable end of mankind if the aliens will reach the planet. That's it. In general, almost all human characters are disgusting and amoral, greatly outlining the fact that in this bright future world humans are worse than aliens. Crazy and amoral scientists, making alien-human hybrids and using human hosts for aliens. Mercenaries, hijacking the cargo ship to deliver humans for experiments to the scientific ship. Military turned into huge greedy corporation with no moral standards. The only neutral or rather, semi-good characters are the survived marine and the man from the cargo ship with alien inside. Closer to the end of the movie Ripley says to Call: "I should have guessed that you're a robot. You're too humane to be a human". Truly, the two good characters of the movie are half-alien and a robot. Now about the rating. Great messages: well, the whole movie is a single great message making one big negative example, where gore and violence are used as background to deliver it. Role models: a robot and half-alien? No, probably not. Too much violence even for Alien sequel and, generally, too much for teenagers. No sex at all - there are several scenes of partial nudity of Ripley and her clones, but they are asexual by their nature and the only "sexual" scene is where a man gives the legs massage to the women. A lot of swearing in general (but not too much, giving the circumstances). Some drinking and smoking at the beginning. Now as for the age rating. We were watching it with my 7 y.o. daughter in a dark room at 10:00 PM as a scary bedtime story. She had no nightmares and really enjoyed the plot and action, but I had to explain several topics, like: "they said that the ship's autopilot is set to return the ship to Earth (as its home base) automatically in case of emergency" or "Call had just connected to the ship's central computer to schedule its self-destruction before it reaches the Earth" or, in general: "the Aliens behave like hornet hive with a Queen, eggs and workers or rather as parasitoid wasps that use caterpillar hosts for their larvae". Still, I think that most kids should watch it at 12+, 14+ or 16+ - all depends on their individual tolerance for blood, gore and freaking monsters.

Terrible characters, terrible dialogue, and so-so special effects! Wow, there is almost nothing good in this atrocity! At least Alien3 was actually good (in my opinion), but not great! This movie is the complete opposite of good! The best part of this movie is Ripley and Brad Dourif's character, and some of the action sequences, but that's it! Skip this sequel, watch the first 3 movies, they are much better than this one!

This new "Alien" film is just as dark and tension filled as the others in the series. There are some new twists in the human/alien relationship, including Ripley, who is half-alien herself. If the first three Alien movies disturbed you, this one won't be any better.

i like the scene when ripley get face hugged

This movie has a great story line but is scary for kids so pre-teen plus is fine