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Perhaps these films are like the Star Trek movies: The even-numbered episodes are the best ones. Certainly this film (directed by French stylist Jean-Pierre Jeunet) is an improvement over Alien 3, with a script that breathes exciting new life into the franchise. This chapter is set even further in the future, where scientists on a space colony have cloned both the alien and Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), who died in Alien 3; in doing so, however, they've mixed alien DNA with Ripley's human chromosomes, which gives Ripley surprising power (and a bad attitude). A band of smugglers comes aboard only to discover the new race of alie
Perhaps these films are like the Star Trek movies: The even-numbered episodes are the best ones. Certainly this film (directed by French stylist Jean-Pierre Jeunet) is an improvement over Alien 3, with a script that breathes exciting new life into the franchise. This chapter is set even further in the future, where scientists on a space colony have cloned both the alien and Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), who died in Alien 3; in doing so, however, they've mixed alien DNA with Ripley's human chromosomes, which gives Ripley surprising power (and a bad attitude). A band of smugglers comes aboard only to discover the new race of aliens--and when the multi-mouthed melonheads get loose, no place is safe. But, on the plus side, they have Ripley as a guide to help them get out. Winona Ryder is on hand as the smugglers' most unlikely crew member (with a secret of her own), but this one is Sigourney's all the way. --Marshall Fine
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Release date: 1 June 1999
EAN: 9786304844946 UPC: 086162032530
Tags: Brandywine Productions (1), Outer Space (1), Scientist (1), Mechanic (1), Alien DNA (1), Stun Gun (1), Brad Dourif (1), Dominique Pinon (1), Leland Orser (1), J.E. Freeman (1), Raymond Cruz (1), Michael Wincott (1), Gary Dourdan (1), Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1), Spacecraft (1), Ellen Ripley (1), Human Alien Hybrid (1), Alien Egg (1), Kim Flowers (1), Carolyn Campbell (1)
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