Alien Resurrection story

movie: Alien Resurrection (1997) · 1997-11-26

Set 200 years after the preceding installment Alien 3 (1992), Ellen Ripley 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. It is the fourth installment of the Alien film franchise and the final installment in the main series.

22 total · 6 choice · 6 major · 10 minor

ThemeLevelMotivation
extraterrestrial being choice Some military scientists were breeding Aliens aboard their spaceship, but they escaped their enclosures and started killing everyone.
facing a ferocious beast choice Ripley 8 and the mercenaries versus the Aliens.
human vs. beast choice Ripley 8 and the mercenaries versus the Aliens.
invasive life form from outer space choice Everyone on Earth was as good as dead unless Ripley 8 and the mercenaries succeeded in stoping the USM Auriga from reaching the planet with its lethal Alien cargo.
out of control scientific experiment choice Some military scientists were breeding parasitic Aliens aboard their spaceship, but the creatures escaped their enclosures, and it was left to Ripley 8 and a band of mercenaries to destroy the ship before it reached Earth.
parasitic being choice The Aliens parasitized human hosts in order to breed.
android major Annalee Call turned out to be a very human-like android.
genetic engineering in society major Some military scientists had created various half Ripley, half Alien monstrosities. Their crowning acheievement was the functional human/Alien hybrid Ripley 8.
human cloning major Some military scientists created a clone of Ripley, named Ripley 8.
human cloning in society major We saw half human, half Alien monstrosities that were brought about by cloning.