Alien 3 Reviews

In Space No One Can Hear You Walk Out

This film doesn't deserve to be spoken in the same breath as the first two. There's too much of the alien on show, the alien seems also have lost a yard of pace and people seem to escape from the thing by simply running away. It does have a grimy industrial look to it but honestly you have to say it's rubbish. Watch no.4 to see the series hit a new low.

One of the worst films I've seen.

It upsets me to say that I don't like a David Fincher film; Fight Club, Seven, and Panic Room are all very good. But because he was a new director at the time, he wasn't given the freedom to make a good film, and the outcome was... Alien 3.

However, saying that this is one of the worst films I've seen, the directors cut is one of the best, so rent that instead, its disk 5 in the quadrilougy, I think that has the original version on it aswell!

[Highly rated reviewer]

This is Rumour Control. Here are the facts!

David Fincher has populated his movie with a metric ton of completely unsympathetic characters. The alien spends most of its time chasing random, interchangeable bald convicts to their doom. (They even *look* the same!) Anyone who begins to show some sort of character development (the doctor and the dastardly warden come to mind) are slain immediately. Only Charles S. Dutton gets any mileage out of his character, and manages to pull off the single act of heroism in the entire film.

As for our returning heroes: Hicks dies off-screen. Newt appears just long enough to undergo a chest-cracking autopsy. Bishop is reactivated long enough to lament that he is no longer 'top of the line' and ask to be switched off again. Ripley herself spends half the movie bemoaning her fate ('We're f*cked!') and trying to convince a convicted rapist/murderer to kill her and put her out of her misery. Clearly, these don't even resemble the scrappy, resourceful characters we've come to admire. No one seems particularly interested in overcoming their situation; I have to ask why should we care, either?

What does it all add up to? There is not a single moment of suspense in this entire movie. I really didn't care whether the alien hunted down all those generic convicted felons. I didn't even really care if it hunted down Ripley, since she is clearly set up as doomed from the beginning. This is grim stuff, but not of much interest.

Better on review

Watching this again showed me that it was much better than I remembered. I had high expectations after Aliens and of course they weren't satisfied. I was very annoyed Newt and Hicks died at the beginning after going through so much to survive the previous film. Actually there was some good tension and characterisation, so worth a look.

Watch the Director's Cut

The Assembly Cut (Director's Cut) of this film is the Alien sequel we all deserve. The edited version is fine, but butchered. However, the shorter version does have an increased pace the unedited version doesn't.

To address some issues:

1. Hicks & Newt - These two had to die. The story isn't about families or supporting actors. It's about Ripley and the beast. Ripley had to be alone. She also had to be the only woman, the alien, because she and the beast are two sides of the same coin. Where there's an alien, there's a Ripley (at least, until those terrible AvP films!). Here we have the most poignant battle, because there really does seem to be no hope, and Ripley understands the irony of being an alien herself. When she understands that the only way to overcome the alien is to accept she is the alien and destroy herself, she can finally save the world. The alien is the darkness, the loneliness and the otherness within herself, the alienation created by an uncaring and unjust society, which she defeats only by accepting her monstrous side.

2. The convicts - Okay, so most Americans think bald Brits all look and sound the same. But they don't. And there are quite a few famous British actors in there, so we do recognise and distinguish between them, even if you don't.

3. The alien - Maybe it is seen too much, but most of its appearances are brief and elliptical, which always makes its actions unclear and mysterious. Its body might be familiar to us by now, but its behaviour is still alien.

So yes, go see it. It isn't as depressing as people make out. The end is one of hope--even when a woman has nothing, and is confronted by men who want to control her and her body on all sides, she can still take control of her own life and her own body. Ripley is the winner, and when she dives into the furnace, she knows it.

This Special Edition is the best watched it over and over 2hrs 18mins long and loads of extas far better than cinima release..more footage at beginning of film and changed story line to the cinima release...So rent and watch it

Overated?

This films just feels like a good film turned into a remake again. The only difference is the ending which we all knew was going to happen. Stick to the originals!

Don't watch the cinema release - watch the Director's Cut

I loved this movie when I saw it in the cinema, it felt a lot more like the original Alien, plus had a great soundtrack and took the story in an interesting direction. However, having seen the director's cut it has risen even more in my opinion and is a classic. Considering the dvelopment hell it went through it is a stunning achievement.

Aliens The comedy!

This made me almost piss my self laughing...but i wasnt laughing with it...i was laughing at it...A distant high security planet full of the meanest and most evil criminals of them all...and they are being terrorised by a whole alien...(dramatic music in the background) a full security prison that has no weapons. and the men can escape the alien by.....running away.... not exactly the one on one death match from the first two films..human and alien go face to face only one will walk out.....but no in this all they have to do is run?!!! The alien must have put a lot of weight on to be outrun by humans to many humans and not enough vegetables....seriously people this is crap

A disapointment

I have been a big fan of the alien saga for a long time and thought that this would only add to the excitement of the the second how wrong i was! it is basically the first one set in a different location also the fact that H.R Giger (he designed the aliens)didn't recieve any form of apprasal in the end credits was a big kick in the teeth both to himself and his fans alike! don't waste your time watching this unless you are a diehard fan of the series.