Underrated!

Rating: Null/10 (29 September 2002)

I honestly have no idea why people dislike this movie so much. True, it's not the best in the series (in my opinion, the quality of the films run in chronological order), but in my opinion it's the best directed. Dark, disturbing and full of symbolism. David Fincher (also one of my favourite directors) did a great job with an impossible situation. And believe me, "Alien 3" was an absolute nightmare to put together. Only days after the release of "Aliens," Twentieth Century Fox ordered for a third Alien film to go into production. Six years, several directors and ten scripts later, they got "Alien 3." Production was an absolute mess, with trailers being released while production was barely off the ground, and according to David Fincher, they were being faxed more pages of the script on set and were forced to shoot those scenes the same day.
Anyhow, on a different note, it's interesting to note that "Pitch Black" was originally slated to be the third Alien film, but the director, David N. Twohy, was fired from production. However, he decided to go off and make the movie anyway. There was a little tweaking in the script of course, but the basic outline is still there (spaceship crash lands on a planet full of very Alien-like aliens, the main character is a woman, there's a child involved, the woman dies at the end, etc.).