Special Edition is the one

Rating: Null/10 (9 June 2004)

OK, we'll never know *quite* what Vincent Ward might have come up with: "Rumour Control! Wooden Spaceship! THE NAME OF THE ROSE in space!" as Brian Glover might have put it... But the recently released Special Edition of ALIEN3 is quite good enough to warrant a full-scale reappraisal of this dark, haunted, regret-filled little movie. If you thought it was the runt of the litter, think again - the thirty extra minutes of restored footage put it second only to ALIEN in the quadrilogy. Watch it, and you'll surely agree it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Fincher's later, stronger work. Highly recommended - now I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with Jeunet's ALIEN:RESURRECTION... more Joss Whedon, less cyberpunk maybe?