Alien31992
Alien3 (1992)
TOMATOMETER
AUDIENCE SCORE
Critic 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.
Alien3 Photos
Movie Info
Watch it now
People Who Like this movie also like
Cast
as Ellen Ripley
as Dillon
as Clemens
as Golic
as Andrews
as Aaron
as Morse
as Morse
as Rains
as Bishop II
as David
as Junior
as Murphy
as Frank
as Boggs
as Jude
as Troy
as William
as Gregor
as Arthur
as Kevin
as Eric
as Company Man
as Newt
News & Interviews for Alien3
Critic Reviews for Alien3
All Critics (48) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (26) | DVD (12)
Just at the point when Alien 3 should kick into high terror gear, it becomes clear that this hushed, somber sequel doesn't know how to deliver the goods.
Good acting has salvaged many a poor script in the past, but not here.
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.
Bold and haunting
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 satisfy fans of the earlier films ... but it won't win any new converts.
Audience Reviews for Alien3
Following hard plot-wise on the heels of Aliens (the second movie of the franchise and rightfully revered), is this addition wherein Ripley crash lands on a former prison colony. Guess who comes with her? Now there's 25 supposedly hardened ex-cons on the site, but they scream like a school bus of girl scouts taken to the ice cream shop at the mall once they find out about the other guest (one, count'em, one xenomorph). Is there any yelling, any shouting, any raising of the voice? Oh you bet your stars and garters there's that, bucko. Why Mr. Dutton might not have a single line in the thing delivered with his "inside voice". And all that yelling to get to practically very little going on. I sure hope 4 is better than this, the runt of the litter IMO.
Super Reviewer
Frustrating and poorly made, this third chapter has an intriguing beginning but the development lacks the unbearable tension of the first film and the unstoppable action of the second, while its final act is like a tiresome slasher movie and the CGI of the creature atrocious.
Super Reviewer
Not as good as the first two.
Super Reviewer
Alien3 Quotes
| Golic: | In an insane world, a sane man must appear insane. |
| Ellen Ripley: | You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else. |
| 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. |
| 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!" |
| 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!' |