"She'll breed. You'll die," says Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) to the futuristic mad doctors who've just scored themselves an alien queen. She does and they do, which isn't precisely giving away key plot points. Two things and two things alone
really matter in an ALIEN movie: the aliens and Ripley. This third sequel -- directed by French cult auteur Jean-Pierre Jeunet -- features the slimy, Giacometti-esque aliens in all their Freudian glory, and gives Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley a creepy new lease on life. Quite literally, as it
happens: Dead at the end of the gloomy ALIEN 3, Ripley returns 200 years later via the marvels of cloning. The instruments of her resurrect...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
108 mins