Hopefully the last

Rating: 6/10 (27 March 2010)

Big Sig is back (cloned actually) in what I truly hope is the last in the "Alien" series. French director Jean Pierre Jeunet helms this time, so the fourth instalment goes a little art-house. The style ends up a lot like a cross between the first three films.
Sigourney Weaver is great, though she doesn't really get to be herself, literally. Winona Ryder does not get to do a lot as the surprise packet of the pic. Also stars Jeunet regular Ron Perlman and J.E. Freeman.
Having to follow up on one of the most popular trilogies of all time, I guess Jeunet and crew have done good. In actuality, this movie is at its best only when in reminds us of past glories. Occasionally the music, or a familiar scene will relive for us a favourite episode in one of the earlier films. Only here does "Alien Resurrection" inspire.
Another sequel consigned to the shadows.
Sunday, January 31, 1999 - Video