Alien on 3-peat.

Rating: 5/10 (8 May 2018)

How many times will this franchise keep fighting the exact same alien, in the same way, for the same reasons, by the same person.
And how many times will Ripley keep bouncing around space, and landing everywhere but earth, and yet, everywhere she lands is always a place filled with people nonetheless?
3 films, and still, nothing is known about anything. Alien is about fighting something we don't know or understand. Aliens is about fighting the same something we don't understand, and its family. Alien 3 is about fighting the very-same-something-we-don't-understand-like-in-Alien, except this time, instead of it growing in Kane, it's now growing in Ellen.
The twist was cool, and I feel I would've seen it coming, had this film just not been such a bore, because of it being NOTHING MORE, absolutely nothing more, than its 2 predecessors.
Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 is the same thing, over, and over, and over again... The 3rd time around was just too brutal to experience. Had it not been for the twist, this movie would've easily been a 4, but that twist helped quite a bit. 5/10.