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Alien 3

Play trailer 1:07 Poster for Alien 3 R Released May 22, 1992 1h 55m Sci-Fi Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
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Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor when she crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Once again, Ripley must face skepticism and the alien as it hunts down the prisoners and guards. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind, Ripley leads the men into battle against the terrifying creature.
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Alien³ takes admirable risks with franchise mythology, but far too few pay off in a thinly scripted sequel whose stylish visuals aren't enough to enliven a lack of genuine thrills.

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Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News One assumes that Weaver received enough combat pay to compensate for playing the now understandably cynical Ripley in this bleak and pointlessly grueling movie. Rated: 1/4 Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times It does succeed in rounding the three movies off, not smashingly but interestingly. It drives us into the wall, throws Ripley into a blind alley from which, at last, there is no escape hatch. Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Jay Carr Boston Globe The monsters just aren't that scary anymore, and so the film mostly just sits there, gloomy and inert, sunk in exhausted myth, looking and sounding Wagnerian but feeling underpowered. Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Brian Bisesi Horror Movie Club Podcast Alien 3 immediately and completely squanders everything that made its predecessors great. This bold new vision swaps in a drab setting, unlikable characters, and an uninteresting plot that lacks suspense. Rated: 2/5 Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Casey Chong Casey's Movie Mania [Alien 3] just doesn’t have the same tension and visceral impact that the first two movies did so well. Rated: 2.5/5 Aug 15, 2024 Full Review Robbie Roberts News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) The movie folds back upon its previous incarnations again and again, never attempting to advance its twice-told tale, content merely to retell once more. What's on screen seems aimed more at making money than making myth. Rated: 2/4 Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Aidan F. Disappointing 3rd movie. The first 2/3rds of this movie are extremely boring with little no action and you barely see the alien. The story was kind of dumb and the whole religion thing was pointless. The only good part is the last 20-30 minutes of then movie where most of the action is, and besides Sigourney Weaver, the rest of the characters are pretty lame and forgettable. One of the worst of the franchise. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/02/25 Full Review Donald G. Awesome! Highly underrated. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/02/25 Full Review Charlie M Some interesting aesthetics and choices, but too large of a disservice to the franchise. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/31/25 Full Review CaptainBoulder T This movie is really boring and it undoes everything Aliens did, and the cgi alien looks bad Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/19/25 Full Review Ry N Ripley crash lands on a prison planet with a facehugger that latches onto a prisoner's dog. The Corporation coming for the queen embryo was an interesting plot but this is some of the worst CGI. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/19/25 Full Review Cosmo B They shouldn’t have killed of Newt and the CGI was a bit dodgy but if you have watched the first two movies lets be honest your going to watch this one and I don’t blame you ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/15/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor when she crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Once again, Ripley must face skepticism and the alien as it hunts down the prisoners and guards. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind, Ripley leads the men into battle against the terrifying creature.
Director
David Fincher
Producer
Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Screenwriter
Larry Ferguson, David Giler, Walter Hill, Vincent Ward
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
Twentieth Century Fox, Brandywine Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Sci-Fi, Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 22, 1992, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$54.8M
Runtime
1h 55m
Sound Mix
Dolby Stereo, Magnetic Stereo 6 Track, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio
70mm, Flat (1.85:1)
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