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'And with a glad heart I commit this body to the deep...' and with those immortal lines the action in Aliens 3 heats up another notch... not such a bad film saved from complete obscurity by a good performance by actor Charles Dance as the doctor doomed to live on a prison planet Fury 162 or whatever its called due to being shafted back on Earth in a malpractise suite. Sigourney Weaver is Ripley in this one again, and some aliens from the 'Kingfisher' race found wandering in Nevada in 1965 return in this movie also, playing a bad tempered alien child. Nothing new there. I have seen worse, much worse thn these films.
7/10
6.6.2009 -
deepspeedresearchvessel@ - age: 26-35
Well, the series launched off with two great movies and after I watched them I was very eager to see this movie. The third installment isn't that good, its like the original only less suspencful, less scary, and a lot more repetative and tedious. I like how they added in the "Runner Alien" but it just wasn't the good. How long do we have to watch the same scene over and over for fifteen minutes? How long do we have to hear the same boring character say the same boring lines? Also, The characters weren't developed as well as the last two. Not a bad movie, but not a good one either.
6/10
29.3.2009 -
richardy4283@ - age: 13-17
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Were this movie not part of the Aliens movie series, were it a movie released as a stand alone movie in some alternate universe where the other Alien movies had never been seen, this movie would get a seven out of ten from me. It is not a 'bad' movie in and of itself. It certainly maintains some atmospherics from the first two but it has transformed the tension of the first two into a nihilism so depressing you almost root for the aliens. But here I digress from giving this movie anything like what it's fair due would be in that alternative universe. This movie was released as a sequel to two other masterpieces, movies which many of us consider amongst our very favorite movies ever. We loved those movies, we loved the characters in those movies. Aliens 3 picks up where Aliens 2 left off, such that in theory one would watch them back to back as one would two episodes of a TV serial. Now I shall reveal information that is revealed in the very first few minutes of the movie, not plot details, just the movie getting rid of inconveniences to the rest of the third movie, practically in the title sequence. If you feel this would be a spoiler for you and you intend to see this movie for the first time, stop reading now. Aliens 2 was all about trying desperately to survive. Even more it was about our heroine saving the little girl. The whole point of the second movie was saving that little girl. However the director and writers of this third movie didn't want to have to deal with a little girl, or the other marine that survived, they were an inconvenience to them. So what did they do? They could have simply 'dropped them off somewhere' and gotten Ripley into trouble on a second trip (and easily done this in the title sequence) But they did not. They had so little respect for the plot of the prequel, so little love for the characters, so little empathy for how what they would do the the raison d'être of the second movie, that they simply, in a totally off hand manner, killed off the inconvenient characters. Oh, by the way, they're dead, on with the new movie. @##$%!!! What this did was to render the second movie to being utterly pointless. This told us that the investment we had made in those other characters was worthless, their struggles meaningless. Some apologist would say that that was the point of the third movie, the pointless futility of struggle in a pointless universe. I stand aghast at the hubris of this third movie, to so think themselves above the masterpieces of what came before them to so callously discard everything we cared about. For shame. For the insult this movie did to me, for the ruin it made of the franchise, for the disrespect shown to art, I honestly feel this movie warrants a very rare (from me) one out of ten.
1/10
19.9.2008 -
panpiper@ - age: 36-49
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Alien 3 is not quite as good as Aliens yet slightly more entertaining then the Original Alien but none the less it is quite a good movie.
8/10
13.1.2008 -
thegodzillaking@ - age: 13-17
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