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.
Direction
Jeunet's French extremity invades Hollywood—every frame drips with sick beauty.
Acting
Weaver's feral physicality; she moves like she's remembering being alien.
Practical Effects
The Newborn: a puppet so wrong it got audiences walkouts and cult devotion.
Director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Weaver insisted on the basketball scene being real—no CGI. She trained for months and sank it in two takes.
The Newborn's design came from H.R. Giger's unused concepts; he reportedly called the final result an abomination and disowned it.
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