Alien 3

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Alien 3

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Released May 22, 1992

1h 55m

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Horror

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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.

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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

Aug 6, 2024

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Eleanor O'Sullivan

Asbury Park Press (NJ)

It is dark, cramped, sweaty; Ripley does struggle with external and internal "monsters." But the movie is capable of cheering you, too, for its intelligence, its lack of superficial, groundless flash and for its spare, appropriate use of violence.

Rated: 3.5/4

Aug 6, 2024

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3D W

A grim, cruel, intense sequel. Fincher’s genius shows, despite the movie’s flaws.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/21/24

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OLGA O

A Very Bad Movie and so stupid Worse than Ressurection And Alien 1 I hate This movie is so bad The only good Things are the alien and the Final Battle but the Oder things Trash Worst Than the original, In conclusion 3.7/10

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

10/21/24

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Jessica C

I quite enjoyed Alien 3

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/17/24

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Audience Member

I hate this movie. It’s boring and endless with characters I don’t care about, besides Ripley.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/05/24

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Audience Member

Overall it was a pretty pointless movie, No aliens were really to be seen and Ripley's enhanced capabilities took away from the horror aspect of the movie.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/01/24

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Sean D

Slow movie that barely shows Aliens in an alien movie. The story drags and is not enough to connect to the characters.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

09/30/24

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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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