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Summary: Under rated.
Review: People keep saying how bad this movie is. But come on people, it's not the best in the series (Aliens belongs to that title), but nor is it the worst I(that's Alien Resurrection, but you probably already knew that). So, it's gory, but it is a horror movie. In Alien, there would be just as much if they showen the death scenes. Aliens would be if it wasn't consatnt machine guns, flamethrowers and action to get in the way. Alien Resurrection I don't even wan't to talk about.People keep saying thatit has bad acting. They are usually the same people telling yoou that Alien Resurrection had stunning, admirable or Oscar worthy preformances on Alien Resurrection. And also, Charles Dance and Charles S. Dutton. They are some of the better actors I've seen. If you didn't like it, at LEAST try to watch it again, and THINK about it this time instead of giving it bad reviews for the sake of hating at least one of the movies in every trilogy. Note: But I admit. It is not a classic, and not even close to as entertaining as the first two.
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Summary: A poor, unsatisfying chapter of a legendary saga.
Review: David Fincher was not meant to direct this movie. His obsession with death sunk to a new low and made "Alien 3" the least successful installment of the four-part series. There are also numerous plot holes and laughable creature effects. The movie begins with a facehugger that mysteriously materializes onboard the marine cruiser Sulaco. If you paid attention to "Aliens" you should know that the queen CANNOT lay egg pods without growing a large birth sac. It is also unlikely that a facehugger hitched a ride with the queen back to the Sulaco since its behavior dictates that its purpose is solely for procreation and not its own protection. Long story short, the facehugger starts a fire and the Sulaco's computer automatically puts Ripley, Hicks, Bishop, and Newt into an EEV and jettisons it. While drifting in space, the facehugger implants an alien embryo inside Ripley. The EEV crashes into the ocean beside a half shut-down penal colony, and is shortly rescued by the custodial staff, made up mostly of convicted felons. Hicks is impaled by a life support console, Bishop is smashed beyond repair, and Newt drowns in her hypersleep chamber. A prisoner's curious dog prowls the EEV and is attacked and impregnated by THE SAME facehugger that implanted Ripley. (Facehuggers die immediately after one implantation.) Soon, Ripley discovers that a new "dog alien" is loose in the compound and she must rally the prisoners to destroy it before the Company arrives to take it captive and exploit it as a military weapon. (Another mistake--the dog alien takes a considerably shorter time to burst out of the host than Ripley's despite the fact that it was implanted later.) Creature effects utilize early CGI and make the alien look cartoonish. The mixture of trained actors, articulated costumes, and animatronics works much better ("Aliens"). The chase scenes from the alien's point of view are a little ridiculous. Fine performances are given by Sigourney Weaver (as always), Charles Dutton, and Charles Dance, however, it is not enough to sweeten the sour aftertaste of the movie.
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Summary: Topped only by Aliens
Review: Alien 3 is maliciously underrated, contains heavy melodramatic content, and digs the deepest of the four Alien films. Alien 3 could best be described as a science fiction tragedy. It's dark, dreary, offbeat, and I love it. Alien 3 takes place two years where Aliens left off. Ellen Ripley and her friends made in Aliens (Hicks, the only surviving marine, Newt, the only surviving colonist, and Bishop, an android) are floating through space in a military spacecraft, when an "electrical disturbance" makes the four survivors shoot out in an escape hatch and crash land on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates pf the planet's maximum security prison. The ship is found, with everyone dead except for Ripley. Ripley, after shaving her head due to head lice, begins to think that there was an alien onboard her ship. There's a scene where an autopsy of Newt is performed, which, despite many misinterpretations, is in no way meant to be masochistic. There's also a new breed of alien in this film. An alien face hugger snatches onto the face of a dog, causing the canine DNA to create a faster, sleaker, better alien. Ripley's fears of an alien aboard her craft are confirmed when ex-cons begin to be picked off by this four-legged beast. Soon she discovers that there are not one but TWO aliens amongst them. One of them is a queen... that is inside of her. Alien 3 was the end of a legend, before movies that took themselves seriously became extinct. The ending is very powerful, even after it was mangled by the whole cloning thing in the unneeded Alien Resurrection. Alien 3 is a brilliant edition to the Alien saga, and in my opinion, the second best, after 1986's Aliens.
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Summary: alien 3
Review: alien 3 is alright and a good sequel.but i still think it all ends at ALIENS.since there are no more facehuggers!!!!
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Summary: Grim and Masochistic
Review: Director Fincher takes his death fetish to new lows in this grim and mostly pointless followup to Aliens. In this one, Ripley--perhaps the universe's most unlucky astronaut--washes up at a penal colony that makes Alcatraz look like a Howard Johnson's at sunny Myrtle Beach. She's joined by a dour cast of British unknowns (a wasted Charles Dance being the major exception), which coupled with the pseudogothic production design, makes the film feel like a bad Henry James novel come to life. With hints--hints--at some deeper meaning, the story basically rehashes the first film; this time, though, the apparent innovation is that prisoners are picked off one at a time by a fast-moving alien that has combined with canine DNA. Masochists undoubtedly will enjoy scenes like the child from the previous film, Newt, being autopsyed, but most viewers will just shake their head at this relentlessly unhappy movie.
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Summary: Not the best of the series, but certainly not the worst
Review: Since there are already many reviews containing a synopsis of the movie itself, I will skip that part and get right to the point. Many of the reviews claim that this is the worst of all 4 in the Alien series, yet I strongly disagree. Alien Resurrection, in my opinion, is by far the worst, most silly and ridiculous rendition of the Alien storyline. Alien 3 has a few inconsistencies, sure. Although Alien 3 is probably not the best of the series, it does have it's qualities. The movie is dark and thrilling, featuring spine-tingling races through underground tunnels. You never know where the alien could be hiding out in this vast complex which has been converted to a maximum security prison. The atmosphere is dank and claustrophobic. Everything seems to be rotting away or covered in rust and slime. The music soundtrack may not be a traditional one, but serves its purpose well at being just downright creepy. Overall, the movie delivers and is an exciting edition to the Alien series. In my book, it is the last one in the series (unless they make an Alien 5), as I refuse to acknowledge that Alien Resurrection is in any way remotely related to the first 3 movies.
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Summary: You might as well watch Rollie Pollie Ollie!
Review: ALIEN 3 brings back Ellen Ripley (Weaver) who is stranded on a prison planet, with no weapons, and yet another alien. MY REVIEW: "Overall: Skip this movie and head straight for the original two! ALIEN 3 is the worst! Don't Bother!"- MJV & the Movies.
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Summary: Underrated and spooky!
Review: Imagine doing the Ed Sullivan show and being scheduled to go on right after the Beatles or Elvis. That's how it must've felt for the makers of the second sequel to ALIEN. Viewed on it's own, however, ALIEN3 is a smart, brooding, suspenseful, exciting, great looking and well acted piece of science fiction cinema. But compared with all the other ALIEN films (Resurrection included) it is somewhat depressing and slow-paced. It would have been better if the several characters from ALIENS had carried over further into this film with Ripley. As it is the storyline is somewhat limited. One thing the movie does have is spooky atmosphere. It looks fanastic on DVD. All that orange! The picture is nearly flawless. Equally good is the 5.1 sound. Weaver, Dutton, Dance and Henriksen all turn it great performances too. Don't let the dismal reviews discourage you. ALIEN3 is not the adreneline rush of ALIENS, but it does borrow a lot from the original. If you remember, a LOT of time passed in ALIEN before you even saw a creature. Even though ALIEN3 is my least favorite, my collection wouldn't be complete without it. Less DVD extras than the first two films. Don't expect much in that area and you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Why put this on DVD???
Review: It was supposed to be about the Aliens coming to Earth, but you know how things get screwed up in Hollywood. This is the end result. I give it 0 stars simply due to the lost potential. The script ideas for Alien 3 that were being tossed around sounded very exciting, what happened?? I surmise that someone was trying to make some grand statement about something but wound up making a bad sequel instead. I guess that I was supposed to say "I see, the Alien is a metaphor for the precarious nature of life, love and existence..blah,blah,blah" after seeing this disaster in the theatres. What I actually said was "I want my money back."
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Summary: I have to set the record straight here...
Review: Back in high-school when I first saw Alien3, I fell in love with it, watched it 3 times in a row, declared it my favorite Alien movie due to the fact that it got the biggest emotional reaction out of me. Now, looking back, I see that it's loaded with problems...although I still find it to be at least on a par with James "Try to say this dialogue with a straight face" Cameron's overrated Aliens. Anyway, the main reason I'm writing is to correct what seems like a common misconception on this site: the alien in this movie is NOT done with CGI. I remember seeing a making-of special on this movie back when it first came out, and the scenes which everyone assumes to be CGI (the scenes toward the end, when you get a better look at the creature, fall back on the old man-in-a-costume method from the original 1970s Alien) are actually an elaborate combination of puppet-miniatures and robotics, filmed against a blue-screen and then matted into the shots (which explains the telltale "matte edges" around the alien -- see "First Knight" for some of the worst matting ever). It's a minor point, maybe, but I just got irritated seeing "CGI, CGI" over and over again in these comments. No CGI, people. It's a puppet, with a lot of rods going into it, with a lot of people moving the rods.
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