Alien 3 (1992)

Alien 3 (1992)

4/10

Starring

Sigourney Weaver
Winona Ryder
Ron Perlman
Dominique Pinon
Gary Dourdan
Michael Wincott
Brad Dourif

Directed by David Fincher

If for any reason other than watching the entire movie in the Alien franchise, I'd suggest you to skip this movie.

I still have a bad aftertaste and a feeling that I’ll throw up from all I have seen.
It may have been a big-budget production, but what a waste it was. This movie is a far cry from interesting or effective compared to the others in its franchise.

As usual, the pod heading for Earth got delayed, and an alien was onboard and killed most of the crew.

Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) survived and brought with her to Fiorina 'Fury' 161, a foundry facility and penal colony inhabited by all-male inmates, the Alien.

All hell breaks loose as usual — people running here and there, death everywhere, chaos, pandemonium, and something growing where it should not.

My very candid thought on this movie is this:
I did not like this movie regardless of the action being fun, and Ripley as expected delivered, wonderful acting from Weaver, who has mastered this character and never delivers anything less than A-class acting when playing it.

The suspense part of the movie was not there and the horror genre in my view was gone and replaced with drama, which was supposed to give the movie more depth, but just made things a bit boring. Like the dialogues being too long with so many pauses in between. Now, I am not saying the movie did not have the horror genre or the suspense, but for me after watching enough of these movies, it felt too below the bar.

Another issue I had with this movie is that it is not evenly paced, and the ending unbelievably annoyingly.

In 1992 Alien 3 was produced, and it was a mess. Directed by first-time movie director at that time David Fincher who later went on to direct hits like Seven (1995) and Fight Club (1999), in this movie did a job I think is worth getting sidelined for.

I regret seeing this movie. After seeing Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) done by Ridley Scott and James Cameron respectively, I expected something better. This was supposed to be a follow-up to an already well-built story. All the writers and the director had to do was continue from where the two great directors stopped. But instead, they tried to do more and ended up wrecking it.

In conclusion, this movie dragged and makes you wish you didn’t hit play when you got the DVD.