Alien3 (1992)

All Critics (44) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (28) | DVD (32)

Good acting has salvaged many a poor script in the past, but not here.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

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.

May 20, 2003 Full Review | Comment (1)

Vincent Canby

New York Times

Top Critic

Bold and haunting

May 12, 2001 | Comments (17)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

Barely watchable and not especially enjoyable.

January 1, 2000 Full Review | Comments (9)

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

Ironically, Alien 3 is not a bad movie. In fact -- here's the rub -- it's too interesting to make an exciting summer flick.

January 1, 2000 Full Review | Comments (4)

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

May satisfy fans of the earlier films ... but it won't win any new converts.

January 1, 2000

John Hartl

Film.com

Top Critic

A large step down from the original two films, the third is still entertaining and iconic.

June 13, 2012 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

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.

May 21, 2012 Full Review

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

Too conceptually disjointed to live in the imagination after it's over, like its predecessors.

May 2, 2011 Full Review | Comments (5)

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

It's a shame that Alien 3 nearly ruined the [Alien] franchise, but that doesn't make it a bad movie, just a bad sequel.

October 30, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

Grim, nihilistic sequel in none-too-cheery series.

September 9, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Charles Cassady

Common Sense Media

A fascinating, often fantastic, film, one simultaneously indebted to and self-consciously divorced from its acclaimed predecessors in ways both clunky and inspired.

March 25, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

The problem lies within the weak storyline.

August 4, 2009 Full Review

Blake French

Filmcritic.com

The movie is dramatically flawed, but in his feature debut David Fincher shows a lot of promise for better things to come, especially when visuals and tone are concerned.

April 20, 2006 Full Review | Comments (5)

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Tournure inattendue trop souvent sous-estime, Alien pourrait bien tre en fait la suite la plus accomplie d'une saga incontournable.

July 31, 2005 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jean-François Vandeuren

Panorama

Fox's DVD restoration/mea culpa of Fincher's original edit is cause for celebration. The studio cut seemed glibly nihilistic --this time when she jumps, it means something.

January 28, 2004 Full Review | Comments (3)

Sean Burns

Philadelphia Weekly

The advertisements promise '3 times the suspense. 3 times the danger. 3 times the terror.' The only thing Alien3 has triple of is the word 'f--k.'

January 1, 2004 Full Review | Comments (5)

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

The soulless Alien is essentially an amalgam of power shots.

December 15, 2003 Full Review | Comments (2)

Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

Flashy, flawed sequel that doesn't deliver the chills of the first or the thrills of the second

November 6, 2003 | Comments (2)

Rob Thomas

Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Manages to get the job done if you temper your expectation to a modest level.

September 29, 2003 Full Review

Gabe Leibowitz

Film and Felt

• 1. Golic: In an insane world, a sane man must appear insane.
  – Submitted by Jack R (6 months ago)
• 1. Ellen Ripley: You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else.
  – Submitted by Jack R (6 months ago)
• 1. Dillon: Why? Why are the innocent punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the pain? There aren't any promises. Nothing certain. Only that some get called, some get saved. She won't ever know the hardship and grief for those of us left behind. We commit these bodies to the void with a glad heart. For within each seed, there is a promise of a flower, and within each death, no matter how small, there's always a new life. A new beginning.
  – Submitted by Jack R (6 months ago)
• 1. Dillon: You're all gonna die. Only question is how you check out. Do you want it on your feet...or on your fucking knees...begging? I ain't much for begging and nobody ever gave me nothin'. So I say, 'Fuck that thing! Let's fight it!'
  – Submitted by John P (11 months ago)
• 1. Bishop II: Hi Ripley I like your hair cut.
  – Submitted by Javis C (13 months ago)

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