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Jean-Paul Jeunet is actually a great director. Really. I promise. His style lends a surreal, fairy-tale-like quality to his films. Unfortunately, this kind of quality is just what the Alien films do NOT need. The first two films were so great because they were so REAL, and even the third, while flawed, managed to present a believeable environment. But Alien Resurrection is marred by its dreamlike atmosphere, which makes it much less hard-hitting and scary. On top of this, Jeunet is saddled with a script that is, um, stupid. Actually, "stupid" is not enough. "Imbecilic," perhaps, or even "fucking brain-dead moronic." Once the incredibly dumb part about taking some of Ripley's DNA and cloning both her and the alien from it was past(note to scriptwriter: next time, try a little something called "research." Parasites have absolutely NO EFFECT on the genetic makeup of their host. None. Zip. Nada.), I thought we were about to get down to a little Aliens-style action, seeing as how crew had a large stockpile of death-dealing weaponry, and there were aliens aplenty to expend ammo on. But I was fooled, as the violence in the film was concentrated to pretty much one scene. For the most part the film was pyschlogical drivel about the aliens' and Ripley's affects on one another, and the whole thing just made me want to beat the writer's head in with the nearest handy blunt object. But I digress. I was writing this to defend Jean-Paul Jeunet. If you want to see a good movie by him, where his talents and vision help instead of hurt the movie, rent _City of Lost Children_, which is a truly visionary and beautiful movie, and which incidently also stars Ron Perlman and the guy in the wheelchair.
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