- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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4 out of 5
This enticing helter-skelter ride through space-opera clichés cleverly conceals the fact that there really isn't anything new of note here, just neat tangents off the basic Alien concept, as nasty extraterrestrials relentlessly stalk their human prey through a deserted spaceship. Sigourney Weaver's Ripley is cloned 200 years after the action of Alien³ because she's carrying an alien queen foetus. French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's shock thrill-ride does showcase some scintillating set pieces such as an underwater battle and a gallery of grotesque clones-gone-wrong. It's tense, mordantly funny, very graphic and bloody, while Weaver is on great form as the clone with some interesting alien influences on her personality.
Plot Summary
Science-fiction action thriller starring Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder. Two hundred years after sacrificing her life to eliminate the alien species, Ripley is cloned by scientists in order to revive the deadly xenomorphs for government use. When the new breed of alien breaks out of its space-ship captivity, Ripley is forced to help the crew escape and stop the vessel reaching Earth with its lethal cargo.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Ripley
- Sigourney Weaver
- Call
- Winona Ryder
- Vriess
- Dominique Pinon
- Johner
- Ron Perlman
- Christie
- Gary Dourdan
- Elgyn
- Michael Wincott
- Hillard
- Kim Flowers
- General Perez
- Dan Hedaya
- Dr Wren
- J E Freeman
- Gediman
- Brad Dourif
- Distephano
- Raymond Cruz
- Purvis
- Leland Orser
Crew
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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