Alien Resurrection
1997 · Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Original language: English
- science fiction
- horror
- action
The story
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
What it’s like
Dirty, oily and claustrophobic, with a palette of sickly greens, rust browns and cold steel-blue corridors lit by flickering work lamps and the sour glow of a spaceship's interior. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's camera is restless and wide-angled, favoring crowded, cluttered frames and sudden fish-eye distortions, while the grain and saturated grime give the image a grubby, tactile weight. The sound is a mix of wet, clicking creature noise, groaning hull metal and a pulsing industrial score, with long stretches of tense quiet broken by sharp bursts of chaos. The vibe is grimy, darkly comic dread, the kind that suits a late night alone with the lights off or a stormy weekend when you want something loud and nasty. Pacing is brisk and jittery, its tone wry and sardonic even at its bleakest, and its central figure, a clone wrestling with her own strangeness, moves from suspicion toward a wary kinship with the misfit crew around her. Violence is frequent and graphic, with bloody creature attacks, gore and body horror, and some crude humour and profanity. It is for people who want sci-fi horror with grit, sardonic wit and a dash of gleeful revulsion.
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