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Alien 3
An escape pod from the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco crash-lands on a prison-run refinery planet, killing everyone aboard except Lieutenant Ellen Ripley. When a serial killer haunts the facility, Ripley realizes that she brought along an unwelcome visitor.
7 February 1946, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
18 June 1957, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
14 November 1959, Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
30 July 1953, Grays, Essex, England, UK
4 October 1953, Hertfordshire, England, UK
12 August 1959, England, UK
1959, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA
3 September 1963, New York City, New York, USA
May 02, 2011
Too conceptually disjointed to live in the imagination after it's over, like its predecessors.January 01, 2000
Barely watchable and not especially enjoyable.January 01, 2000
There are a few narrative twists, but not enough new ideas to keep us guessing. In the end, we're stuck running through air shafts and corridors again.May 21, 2012
I recognize the film fandom fury that comes with such a drastic continuation, yet there's a big brown world of unusual cinematic risk here to consume. Alien 3 remains such a potent, mesmerizing force of doom.July 24, 2014
It all happens - with equal confusion and intrigue - under the umbrella of a low-tech style so chilling in its presence that it becomes a character all on its own.November 12, 2014
The general perception was that, since [Fincher's] film was not Aliens, it was not any good. But it's an amazing film on many levels, switching 180 degrees to a grungy, dreary mood.May 20, 2003
Alien 3 belongs to that branch of fantasy comics, best exemplified by the Road Warrior movies, in which the iron and space ages meet for dizzy results.June 13, 2012
A large step down from the original two films, the third is still entertaining and iconic.May 12, 2001
Bold and hauntingJanuary 01, 2000
May satisfy fans of the earlier films ... but it won't win any new converts.February 09, 2006
Good acting has salvaged many a poor script in the past, but not here.May 19, 2017
For all its inherent structural problems, Alien remains a worthy intended conclusion to the series, finding its true resolution in Ripley's resolve to break the endless cycle of her torment.