A mediocre TV episode

Rating: 3/10 (14 December 1999)

What would happen if the Alien series had been turned into a TV series? Lots of episodes just like this one. Alien3 breaks no new ground, introduces no new characters, and rehashes rather blandly the plots that preceded it. Predictable, dreary, dismal.
If this is the only Alien movie you've seen and you didn't like it, take heart. Aliens is one of the finest sci fi or war movies ever made, and Alien did for horror what Star Trek did for sci fi.
My advice would be to skip this one unless you, like I, just can't resist finding out what happened in the chapter you were told to avoid all along. Charles Dance (the Doctor) is the only bright spot. A 3 on a scale of 10.