Alien³

Rating: 5/10 (15 June 2005)

The debut film from director David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, Panic Room), and sequel continuing where Aliens left off is okay. The film begins with flashes off an alien being in the ship that Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver, also co-producing), Newt, Hicks and Bishop (Lance Henriksen) escaped in, which lands on a remote prison and refinery planet. Ripley is the only survivor (of course), Bishop is broken, and Newt and Hicks died, but Ripley wanted to make sure Newt died of drowning, and then they are cremated in molten metal, while a dog injured on the face gives birth to an alien (obviously those marks made by the face-hugger). Ripley like everyone else is made bald, because of the lice problem, the Company call emergency rescue to collect Ripley, who is important to them. Eventually, the prisoners one-by-one are being killed by the alien, Ripley finds out from repairing Bishop it was with them all the way, so the remaining prisoners plan to trap it and cover in liquid metal. The bad news for Ripley though, is that it won't be over for her killing the alien, because she has been impregnated with one. So when the Company eventually show up to take her and the survivors away, including the human Bishop (Henriksen), she knows it is right to destroy it, and is willing to kill herself to do it, so she purposely falls off the edge to die in the molten metal, along with the alien that bursts out just before they hit the pit. Also starring Charles S. Dutton as Dillon, Charles Dance as Clemens, Paul McGann as Golic, Kes's Brian Glover as Andrews, Ralph Brown as Aaron, Danny Webb as Morse, Christopher John Fields as Rains, Holt McCallany as Junior, Christopher Fairbank as Murphy, Pete Postlethwaite as David and Clive Mantle as William. The special effects are not as good as the first two films, the cast is good, and it still remains a good science-fiction action thriller, but it is not essential. I have seen the re-edited version, which is ridiculous, e.g. Ripley found on the beach, and no alien coming out of her chest when she dies, so just see the original. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, and it was nominated the BAFTA for Best Special Effects. Sigourney Weaver was number 20 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars, and Ellen Ripley was number 8 on 100 Years, 100 Heroes & Villains. Worth watching!