The SE Treatment Really Brings This Film TO Life at Last!

Rating: Null/10 (6 April 2004)

When Alien 3 was first released, it was plagued by studio politics, idiot preview audiences who said 'there's too many bald English blokes in it' and execs who really did not know what they where doing.
The end result was a film that the Director refused to have anything to do with and I cannot blame him! The huge gaping holes in the plot where plain to see and the true spirit of the Alien franchise that had so characterised the first two instalments was lost or at least heavily diluted.
Thankfully sense has prevailed and the new Special Edition puts the film as near as possible back the way it should have been. Don't get me wrong, its still not as good as the all out Directors Edition of Aliens and it still drags a little in places but it is still a darn sight better and well worth the investment. Once seen, you will never want to see the now dreadful original version ever again.
Its just a pity that this treatment did not manage the same kind of transformation on Alien Resurrection!