I like this movie...

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2000)

Alien 3 is one of the darkest, most morbid movies I have ever seen. It took a while for me to respect this film, (I hated it when I first saw it in '92), but I like it now. The acting by Weaver, Charles Dance and the entire prison cast is first rate, the dank and dirty sets of the Fiorina "Fury" 161 prison colony are inventive and the surrealistic dark dreamlike mood of the film has a strong resonnating effect; (a funeral scene about 20 minutes into the movie intercut with the birthing process of the new alien is powerfully haunting and effective). I guess my only serious complaint with this film is that the special effects, especially the creature effects, aren't quite up to quality standards. Not as good as the first two, "Alien 3" is definitely better than the fourth entry which should have found a better story and a better director.
I give this film a B.