Complete Waste of Time and the millions it had cost

Rating: 1/10 (4 November 2003)

This movie generally sucks in very aspect except for the really nice photography by Darius Khondji. The script is so unlogical. If you clone a pregnant woman, than her baby would definitely not be copied too. But the worst thing in the script are the completely nauseating characters. Winona Ryder (a very good actress in other films) is completely miscast as an action-heroine. Ron Perlmans character is completely unbearable and destroys even the last moment of atmosphere. Also weak is John Frizzells score, which is the absolutely boring standard-shocker music with high string tremolos and stomping percussions, the other 3 movies had great scores. And the worst part of it all: this movie doesn't even scare you. Instead of well build tension you get gore, gore, gore- my fantasies are much more frightening then liters of film blood. I give it a 1 out of 10, because Jeunet really failed in keeping up the high quality of the series (yes, i also liked Fincher's take on the beast, although you can feel, that it was heavily cut by the studio.) And now, there are rumours about a fifth ALIEN-movie directed by Ridley Scott. Chances are high, that this will get better than Jeunets "achievement." But then, it really has to end, the series had sequels enough.