No more please

Rating: Null/10 (6 February 2000)

* (1 out of 5)
Alien Resurrection
Directed by : Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997
Clumsy, dumb and sputtering sequel has Ripley running around another spaceship, fighting another batch of aliens with help from another group of space pirates and grunts.
In hoping to re-energize the `franchise', Frenchman Jeunet takes a turn as director. The alien universe seemed a nice match for him (remember his City Of Lost Children) on paper Â– and like Alien3, Sigourney Weaver had a consulting say on this one too - but the movie is ample proof of how wrong theory can sometimes be.
Jeunet is certainly no Cameron and we get drowned in over-achieving visuals on top of a stupefied story (Ripley is cloned some 200 years after her death. Get the picture?).
And yes, that's Winona Ryder as the android. The last 20 minutes may actually have Alien fans going suicidal. It's that bad.