A downgrade from the heart-pounding Aliens.

Rating: 5/10 (23 April 2014)

The second sequel to the sci-fi epic, Alien, the story starts when the ship carrying Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crashes onto a remote island inhabited by inmates, who later discovers that an alien stowaway caused the crash. Once again, Ripley finds herself facing the Alien, and also faces the untold plans of the company who employed her.
What resulted from Alien 3 is a downgrade from the exciting, thrilling and heart-pounding Aliens. While the special and visual effects were good and realistic, especially the execution of the Alien creatures, and the acting was decent (Weaver carried the movie mostly), the story itself is depressing, making it seem that all the things Ripley fought for from the first two movies became redundant. Her world gets darker as she must deal with unruly inmates on the island and the devious plans of the company who employed her.
Director David Fincher didn't capture the intrigue and horror of the previous movie, and instead created a movie just full of darkness and chaos. Overall, what we got was what I think the weakest of the Alien movies.
Grade D+