Could have been so much better but anyway it is what it is...

Rating: 3/10 (10 July 2017)

NOTE: SPOILER ALERT IF YOU ARE READING THIS!!!
After Ridley Scott and James Cameron blew us all away with the first two films, you think the Alien franchise still had a lot of potential left, but no. Along comes David Fincher who absolutely boils the franchise like it's a lobster on Christmas morning...
The setting is the first major issue, Ripley just HAPPENS to land on a planet that has a prison on it who rescue her and take her in (and just so happens to conveniently land on the right SPOT of this particular planet). already... Give me a goddamn break!
The alien in this movie is all CGI. no attempt at Animatronics were made in this film and to me, this is the biggest disappointment. The Alien looks utterly pathetic and cheesy as all hell.
To be fair, The actors aren't that bad at all. Apart from Sigourney Weaver, Alien 3 gives us some notable figures we can't help but appreciate such as Charles Dance and Pete Postlethwaite, but most of the characters in this film are just lined up as cannon fodder/alien food (whatever you prefer to call it).
My biggest complaint about the plot is how suddenly Newt and Corporal Hicks are killed off.... They're two characters we absolutely loved and rooted for in Aliens and now they're just gone like they were nothing and Ripley is the only one left that we're expected to feel emotion for.
There are a couple of aspects of Alien 3 that are new and fresh and I do commend this film for at least TRYING to give the audience something new to think about. The alien in this film births itself from an Ox (or a dog depending what version of the film you see) and it takes on the characteristic of an animal who can move extremely quickly on all fours, kind of a hybrid. In the later part of the film, they try to trap the Alien through a series of corridors and seal tight doors and there are frequent shots of the camera quickly moving with a tunnel vision effect to give the audience the vision of the Alien. again, a nice fresh, new touch that adds to this tense chase scene.
We also later learn in the film that Ripley has an alien Queen inside her and the Alien of this film simply will not kill her due to the fact that it would be killing its species future... So if the Alien won't kill Ripley but will kill everyone else (who we really don't care about) then where's the suspense of Alien 3? The conclusion of course.
Ripley discovers that Peter Weyland is on his way to get her and take her back with him, but Ripley in all her wisdom is too non-trusting of him thinking he just wants the alien for himself for his company. Turns out, Ripley was right. She does the only thing she can do to make sure Weyland doesn't get his hands on the alien. Ripley leans back and falls into a pit of molten lava killing herself. A surprising yet fitting end considering what she has gone through and how much she has lost throughout the story line.
Overall, when it comes down to it, a sequel is a sequel and Alien 3 has gone down in history as just another typical B movie.
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