A decent horror addition to the Alien franchise that round out a trilogy

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 2017)

The third film in the alien franchise finds Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling a single xenomorph on a prison planet as she discovers an awful secret. A prisoner Clemens (Charles Dance) is walking along the beach when he discovers Ripley's unconscious body. He brings her back as the other prisoners find the crashed ship and all other survivors, Hicks and Newt, deceased. Ripley's presence causes a disturbance on Fury 151 as she is the only woman. Ripley is focused on making sure none of the aliens survived. A face hugger sneaks off and impregnates a cow.
Prisoners start to go missing as Clemens tries to convince the warden Andrews (Brian Glover) that something isn't right. Ripley tries to figure out what happened on the ship and reprograms Bishop (Lance Henriksen) but the prisoners attack her. Dillon (Charles S. Dutton) helps Ripley fight off the prisoners and leads them to a spiritual awakening. When a crazed prisoner Morse (Danny Webb) shows up covered in blood, the men suspect that there is something worse in this prison though some including Andrews and Aaron (Ralph Brown) are still skeptical of Ripley's story of the alien.
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