Underrated but still not as good as the others

Rating: 7/10 (18 April 2010)

I can understand why Alien 3 got so many negative reviews. First, why kill the young girl that managed to survive in Aliens and who everyone got emotionally attached to? And why kill so soon the most interesting character besides Ripley, that it Clemens? He is the only normal person in this zoo full of paedophiles and rapists. Charles Dance offers a pretty good performance as a well educated doctor with a dark side. The scene in which he performs an autopsy is quite remarkable. He should have stayed alive longer. You don't kill such an important character before the very secondary ones. Also, I can understand the fact that Ripley got infected with a monster gives the movie a more pessimist side. Beside that,there seems to be some inconsistencies. Is it me or the images of the lava cauldrons -or weatherer you wanna call the thing in with Ripley plunges at the end - don't match logically with the large plan of the installations? And the image you see on the monitor when Ripley performs a scan is quite bad. Your cant really see the alien. It's all fuzzy and chaotic. Alien 3 is definitely the darkest and saddest of all four. But still I wouldn't go so far to say that it is a bad film. The atmosphere is well established. The acting is good. There are many gory scenes, especially the one with the fan. As in Alien, there is a sense of permanent menace and claustrophobia. Finally, the new version is way better than the original. It makes more sens.