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Alien 3

R Released May 22, 1992 1h 55m Sci-Fi Horror TRAILER for List
44% Tomatometer 126 Reviews 46% Popcornmeter 250,000+ Ratings
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 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 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Mihailo M The movie is too scary to watch. The first two are not as much as this third part. The third part is scarier than the first two parts and does not have an interesting plot like the first two parts. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/27/24 Full Review Carlos B Studios shoud not interfere with their own director's decisions... Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/19/24 Full Review Audience Member This movie is very misunderstood in my opinion. Partially, because it's not well executed, or at least the idea behind it. It was supposed to be a part with symbolism - mainly focusing on soul, and what species deserves to exist. The idea was there - reformed, deeply religious convicts and this "demon", representing just basic, primitive instincts. The question - what make humans different than this beast? Do we strife only for survival at all cost, or are we prepared to make sacrifices for the sake of others, and our own beliefs? Alien here represents byblical evil - primitive murderer which only brings death and mayhem. While actual murderers, rapists, etc. must rise above those instincts to win, both with the alien and their own weaknesses. Sacrifice vs survival - war on soul. That was the idea here, but the end result was too chaotic for many to see it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/15/24 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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