After escaping from the alien planet, the ship carrying Ellen Ripley crashes onto a remote and inhabited ore refinery. While living in the ore refinery until she is rescued by her employers, Ripley discovers the horrifying reason for her crash: An alien stowaway. As the alien matures and begins to kill off the inhabitants, Ripley is unaware that her true enemy is more than just the killer alien. This movie is certainly worth watching and if you're truly a hard core fan.
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The Series Should Have Ended With This One
Added 10/30/2009
Talk about some imagination. Where, oh where, do the caretakers of the Alien franchise set up the third installment? To come up with an isolated, desolate planet harboring what was once a maximum security prison--a place where its inhabitants have virtually no defenses against a snarling monster--is sheer genius. And that's exactly where we find ourselves as ALIEN3 unfolds its disturbing, claustrophobic story: a spaceship crash, with Ripley--and of course, one of the facehuggers--as the lone survivor, on a planet with some very bad men who've done very bad things. . .and there's no place to escape.
Count me in.
Sigourney Weaver really ups the tragic pathos of her beloved Ripley character; this is one depressed lady with some serious angst--and she's trying her best to convince her new associates that something very, very bad is about to happen to all of them. In fact, something very, very bad is about to happen to Ripley herself, and it's this realization that adds an extra thread of tension as ALIEN3 rolls darkly to its climax. (I must confess, the alien's demise was too over-the-top, but didn't take away from my enjoyment of the film.)
Once again, Weaver is joined by a strong supporting cast, including Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, and Danny Webb, to name but a few. Lance Henriksen returns, briefly, as a severely damaged Bishop, then as greedy entrepreneur Bishop II. Director David Fincher, following Ridley Scott and James Cameron, definitely had his work cut out for him, and for the most part delivers a grand seat squirmer, yet in comparison ALIEN3 falls a little short of its fantastic predecessors. Having said that, and based on the horrific turkey that was to follow, the Alien series should have said adios here.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
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Added 10/26/2009
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To like alien 3 or not to like alien 3?
Added 9/30/2009
I remember seeing this at the age of 8 peeking through my fingers. I had a love of the first 2 since i was old enough to understand them (5 or 6). I had Alien toys and made my own dropship out of those large plastic building blocks. Alien and Predator are very dear to me. and terminator and robocop too. I remember begging my mom to let me get the queen alien (i got it).
Alien 3 is to some one of the worst Alien films but to me and i'm sure others it is gold. I think the crew was trying to recreate the claustrophobic atmosphere from alien. To that end it was succesful. I was kinda peeved about Hicks , Bishop, And Newt's fates as a kid but now as I see it as an adult i see what the crew wanted.
alien 3 was supposed to be the end of the cycle. In Alien the creature killed ripley's crew in Aliens ripley repayed the creatures. Ripley is not onoly the last survivor or the Nostromo but the Sulaco as well, she's a survivor and the last of her kind, as is the alien in here. The aliens honored her with a queen embryo. The creatures and her are closer than ever ( Ripley clone aside). They won't kill her because of what she has and this makes her able to see them closer. The prison is full of repentant crimals who sacrifice themselves to destroy this evil. The corp wants it to bring in a new era of bio-weapons. good and evil , peanut butter and jelly. Who will survive?
All in all if you haven't seen this in a while give it another shot especially as an alien fan.It is in my opinion the 3rd best in the series. Alien Resurrection was always to me a side story and the clone isn;t really the Lt. Ellen Ripley we knew but a hellish amalgam of Ripley and her sworn enemies.
Now a lot of you say that there are quenstions unanswered in the film series and that is true. A lot of people were peeved at the loss of Hicks, and the other survivors of the Sulaco. What's with the space jockey? If you are looking for these answers pick up a copy of Aliens Omnibus #1 from dark horse comics. while they may not be canon you can look at it as what would of happened if alien 3 never happened or if you just don't like and accept Alien 3. Hicks and Newt are alive, they go to the alien's homeworld, a live space jockey shows up ( a friend of the dead one in Alien), earth gets overrun with aliens and Ripley Lives!!!
Rock and Roll!!!!
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Tragically Poetic
Added 9/15/2009
This is by far my favorite alien movie because it's the complete antithesis to Aliens.
Sure, the action sequences are nothing like before, but think about it: If Hicks and Newt actually survived, watching Alien 3 would've been like watching part two of Aliens, which is why their deaths made sense since Ripley, in my opinion, was meant to suffer a tragic existence since encountering the first alien.
As for the product itself, it's a digipak (one annoying drawback).
During the playback of the Assembly Cut of Alien 3 [on Disc 5], there is a slight jump between 1:13:44 and 1:13:45 for whatever reason, but the DVD itself never shut down or skipped to the point where there was no audio or video.
There are a bevy of special features I have yet to watch, but I'm sure Disc Two will be fine.
Pick this up, especially since The Assembly Cut seams together 30 minutes of additional footage that was edited out by the studio after numerous test audiences. This footage makes for a better movie, with gorier death scenes, an alternate opening and a new sequence which brings the alien into existence.
Well worth the money.
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After escaping from the alien planet, the ship carrying Ellen Ripley crashes onto a remote and inhabited ore refinery. While living in the ore refinery until she is rescued by her employers, Ripley discovers the horrifying reason for her crash: An alien stowaway. As the alien matures and begins to kill off the inhabitants, Ripley is unaware that her true enemy is more than just the killer alien. This movie is certainly worth watching and if you're truly a hard core fan.
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The Series Should Have Ended With This One
Added 10/30/2009
Talk about some imagination. Where, oh where, do the caretakers of the Alien franchise set up the third installment? To come up with an isolated, desolate planet harboring what was once a maximum security prison--a place where its inhabitants have virtually no defenses against a snarling monster--is sheer genius. And that's exactly where we find ourselves as ALIEN3 unfolds its disturbing, claustrophobic story: a spaceship crash, with Ripley--and of course, one of the facehuggers--as the lone survivor, on a planet with some very bad men who've done very bad things. . .and there's no place to escape.
Count me in.
Sigourney Weaver really ups the tragic pathos of her beloved Ripley character; this is one depressed lady with some serious angst--and she's trying her best to convince her new associates that something very, very bad is about to happen to all of them. In fact, something very, very bad is about to happen to Ripley herself, and it's this realization that adds an extra thread of tension as ALIEN3 rolls darkly to its climax. (I must confess, the alien's demise was too over-the-top, but didn't take away from my enjoyment of the film.)
Once again, Weaver is joined by a strong supporting cast, including Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, and Danny Webb, to name but a few. Lance Henriksen returns, briefly, as a severely damaged Bishop, then as greedy entrepreneur Bishop II. Director David Fincher, following Ridley Scott and James Cameron, definitely had his work cut out for him, and for the most part delivers a grand seat squirmer, yet in comparison ALIEN3 falls a little short of its fantastic predecessors. Having said that, and based on the horrific turkey that was to follow, the Alien series should have said adios here.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
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Added 10/26/2009
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