This is the fourth in the excellent Alien series, and sees Sigourney Weaver return from the dead as Ripley.

Having committed suicide at the end of Alien 3 to stop The Company getting their hands on the unborn alien within her, Ripley returns 200 years later, thanks to the genetic scientists who have succeeded in cloning her and the alien creature from her DNA.

But trouble is afoot on the space station where the Ripley clone is imprisoned.

A group of space pirates (led by Michael Wincott and Winona Ryder) arrive with a cargo of sleeping humans for the scientists to use as hosts for the alien eggs they have cultivated.

But then the aliens break out of their cages...

Everything about this one is weirder than before, as you might expect from visually stylish director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who made the great City of Lost Children, but this is great fun and full of the usual jumps among the death and destruction.