Full Movie Reviews
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3/4
"Alien 3" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 02/22/2012
When an alien presence causes the Sulaco to eject the cryo tube chamber, it crash lands on a obscure technologically backward all-male prison colony. The third alien film was not particularly well received at the time, most citing David Fincher's inexperience as a feature director as prime culprit. It does on occasion resemble his music video heritage, but it also has some of the very stylish and atmospheric visuals that would become his trademark. It's true it does not measure up to the earlier films, but not much does. It has some interesting ideas, namely the evolution of a different kind of alien according to its specific host, and the fact that it will not attack an organism hosting an embryo. Sigourney Weaver is as always a strong and human protagonist while there is solid support …
Rating of
3.5/4
Very Unique Monster Movie and Good Ending
Dark Vengeance 9 - wrote on 10/14/2011
Alien 3 is admittedly not as impressive as James Cameron's masterpiece Aliens, but it is still one of the greatest sci-fi horror movies. This movie is actually really memorable and unique, although I highly recommend the director's cut. If you can get past the beginning where there are wasteful and unjustifiable deaths of the previous main characters, the rest of the movie is actually really well constructed. The acting is not as impressive as the previous two entities and the special effects aren't as good as Aliens, but the pacing, plot, and tension are perfect. While the first Alien felt like a slasher in space and Aliens was an action thriller, Alien 3 is undeniably a impressive monster movie. This movie has an interesting mixture of tension and graphic death sequences. The ending of …
Rating of
1/4
The worst of the series
WestIsBest - wrote on 11/18/2007
Okay, this film just absolutely depressed me! Being a huge fan of Aliens, I obviously wanted to see this one but it just came as a complete slap in the face. If you really don't want to know anything then stop reading but this does only happen right at the start. The fact that they killed off Newt and Hicks basically just because they didn't know what else to do with them, really didn't go down well with me. We followed these characters through a whole movie and were grateful that they survived only to not even see them die within the first 5 minutes of this film. I understand that they wanted Ripley on her own again but I'm sure they could have found a different way of doing it.
And if that wasn't bad enough, the movie itself isn't even good. The characters go back to being fairly …
Rating of
2/4
The weakest of the first 3
TheWolf - wrote on 08/04/2007
The original movie Alien was nothing short of a true sci-fi masterpiece from the great Ridley Scott. Then James Cameron comes in and creates one of the greatest sequels of all time. But Alien 3 is the absolute slap in the face to anyone who loves the series. This is a cold, heartless, and hopeless film. When I saw this film, I felt absolutely nothing for any of the characters. My only compassion went to Ripley at seeing all the hardships she had endured throughout the ordeal. The film had absolutely no memorable or likeable characters so when someone got killed, I really didn't care. What really bothers me about the film is it's lack of heart. The film had absolutely no humanity to it. I felt emotionally cut off by it from the opening credits. The death of Newt and Hicks, to me, was a …
