Even Weaver can't resurrect 'Alien's' stilted script By David Hunter The Hollywood Reporter We've ogled them in "The Fifth Element," laughed at them in "Men in Black" and nuked 'em in "Starship Troopers." Now it's time to get cuddly with them. So far, 1997 has been the Year of the Aliens in big budget sciencefiction movies, and the aptly titled "Alien Resurrection" checks in with enough slime, gore and scary monster-flick moments to satisfy undemanding audiences. But it's an ugly, animated corpse of a movie stitched together from the other three films in the series, even as it follows the direction taken in "Alien3" to its next ghastly stage. Not the best in the series, but in some ways the most ambitious, "Alien Resurrection" is a mixed bag of stilted I humor, repetitive action and successfully more repulsive encounters with alien-human mutations. From pesky leaping babies fresh from their eggs to a large artificially created queen (retrieved from a clone of the series' heroine, who sacrificed her life at the end of the last disappointing installment), "Alien Resurrection" is as cynical about human motives as its predecessors, but it's the most sympathetic toward the killer species regularly butchering franchise lead player Sigourney Weaver's male Alien Resurrection. Rated R. Carmike Cinema 4, Cinemark Movies 10, Patrick Henry 7, Riverdale Plaza 12, York River Crossing. co-stars. Maybe die-hard genre followers will embrace the grotesque agenda and the endless grisly attacks, but the whole project is a notch or two lower in the writing department. Not to worry, fans, there is a repeat of the gut- that highlighted the first film and a climactic alien birth scene that tries hard to gross out viewers. Unfortunately, the last frightful surprise is borderline laughable, and one has lost interest even when the alien-infested research ship on which the film is set heads toward Earth. Looking way out of place and not terribly convincing, but trying her best, Winona Ryder as an odd crew member with a secret is dominated by Weaver in their scenes together and mostly overwhelmed by the production. Weaver, with her sleek body and cool demeanor, is hardly the motherly female action hero she blossomed into in "Aliens," but there's no denying she's in a groove with the character. All the best aspects of the film are hers. ALIEN SUSPENSE. Sigourney Weaver, in "Alien Resurrection," a new film that successfully more repulsive encounters left, teaches Winona Ryder some reviewer David Hunter calls a mixed bag with alien-human mutations. techniques for fighting the monstrous alien of stilted humor, repetitive action and Courtesy of 20th Century Fox