Pinon is among the wasted talent, though he never seems to be right for the character in the first place. Ron Perlman surprisingly gives a good performance. Perlman is usually good, but this time he seems to actually have fun. Perlman's scenes with Weaver are some of the best. Kim Flowers also gives a nice performance, but her character is so underdeveloped that we really don't care about her.
Flowers actually has one of the suspense-building moments.
Dan Hedaya is wasted in a horrible role as General Perez. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a very good visual style, which is very apparent in his City of Lost Children . Here, however, his style is completely wrong, using too many close-ups of the actors' faces. His characters are so strange that I found myself hoping the aliens would kill everyone except Weaver. Jeunet has single-handedly destroyed a terrific series of suspense films.