Alien 3. The Ballad of Ellen Louise Ripley

Rating: 7/10 (8 July 2020)

I found Alien 3 presented a fresh addition to the science fiction genre. To me, this movie compared as a space drama, and was well needed to quiet things down after putting the audience on the edge watching the outstanding horror 1979 Alien and the excellent thriller 1986 Aliens.
After Alien and Aliens presented great hyper-entertainment, I found Alien 3 needed to be freshly presented in a pianissimo tone. If 20th Century Fox had given us another movie similar to 1 and 2, then 3 would've been just a repeat of great entertainment, like other action movie franchises.
It was an audacious move by the studio. Alien 3 was creative, dark, and should've ended the Alien franchise as a trilogy, before giving us the prequels Prometheus and Covenant.