Alien 3

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Alien 3

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Released May 22, 1992

1h 55m

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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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Critics Consensus

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Munchie A

It’s boring but it does set the premise for Alien: Isolation so I guess there’s a silver lining. This one was a step back for the series.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/13/25

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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

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Donald G.

Awesome! Highly underrated.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/02/25

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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

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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

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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

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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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