A bad idea; this is a downer that's hard to shake off

Rating: 4/10 (1 February 2015)

By this point, Ripley's pretty much clinched the Can't-Catch-An-Effing-Break award. Terrorized in two different movies, misses out on motherhood, gets blamed for trashing company equipment, loses an adoptive daughter in a meaningless death . . . Thus begins "Alien³", for better or worse. I will say the killing off of Newt and Hicks - callous though it certainly was, regardless of script necessity - was a ballsy move. Takes cojones to spit on previous work like that. But in any case, all I'm able to see here is how much better the preceding movies are. Nevermind the plot hole with how the egg got onto the Sulaco in the first place, this is just an unbelievably dull movie. The drab color palette doesn't help, and Sigourney Weaver just sleepwalks through the entire thing. Fincher throws in some style with the camera angles, but with that thing growing inside our heroine, this movie's got nihilist written all over it. And not the fun kind. It's just a bad story and flies in the face of the series, thus far.
This is awful.
4/10