Alien 3 – 1992

This is where the franchise should have stopped, and it was a good way to go out, but Then they had to go an ruin it with Alien Resurrection, it should have been kept as a trilogy.

The third installment of one of the greatest movie franchises sees Ellen Ripley do battle with her Alien nemesis amongst the penal colony Fiorina ‘Fury’ 161. The film is dark and edgy and has a great cast list which includes plenty of Brit actors such as Charles Dance, Ralph Brown and Pete Postlethwaite not to mention Charles S. Dutton.

A young David Fincher is the driving force behind this one and I think he gets it spot on, the tight camera shots set against fairly bland film sets still get the pulse raising for the viewer. The storyline is good and although the visual effects are sketchy (for the Alien) it was still being inter-worked with puppets as well. We have moved on a lot since then and I think that the film delivered on what it had to. There are as well, too many characters to really care about but then we are in a prison so we have to expect a few.

It was never going to be a stand out and rumour has it they broke the bank to get Sigourney back. Having said that it’s high octane entertainment that would have done well to finish when it did, the rest is history.

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Rating: (3.5/5)

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