Alien Resurrection . Newcity Chicago . 12-01-97

Alien Resurrection

DIRECTED BY: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

REVIEWED: 12-01-97

For someone who claims their English on the first day of shooting was limited to "Zhut de fokk upp!" Jean-Pierre Jeunet does more-than-capable work in reviving the "Alien" franchise. "Alien Resurrection" suffers from uninspiredly gruff obscenity, so-so one-liners, a buoyant-yet-dull approach to much of the icky-goo and the gore, yet Jeunet, co-director of "Delicatessen" and "City of Lost Children," brings along both his rich, dark palette and his gifted cameraman Darius Khondji, to great effect. The movie's 103-minute running time is mostly chase, with a few privileged moments of glare from the reincarnated, muscular mutant Ripley of Sigourney Weaver. Khondji loves Weaver's face and limbs, and loves Winona Ryder's even more. Ryder seems chirpy at some moments, but when her face floods with worry or regret, Khondji floods her face and liquid eyes with sweetest luminescence, while also retaining the layers of gloom, steel, muck and damp in the corridors or passageways behind her. The movie moves like the wind, then pauses for a close-up, then moves on, again and again.

--Ray Pride

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