Rating of
2/4
The weakest of the first 3
TheWolf - wrote on 08/04/07
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 huge mistake. I really thought that something could have emerged between Hicks and Ripley. And Ripley's relationship with Newt was such a wonderful connection that was really the driving force of Aliens. But now with Hicks and Newt dead, Ripley seems to have lost all her humanity and soul which gives the audience nothing to root for.
Honestly while it had the two primary characters, Ripley and the Alien, it really didn't make any progress in the fashion of story telling. This one should have really been either left alone, or had one of the original screen writers go over it before putting it together.
