Alien 3

Let's start with a bit of a background on how I got around to watching Alien 3. Last week, I decided to buy the Alien Quadrilogy boxset as I have only watched the first film in the series.

Last night it was Alien 3's turn in the DVD player and I did have quite high hopes after the fantastic Aliens. Alien 3 is about Lt Ripley crash-landing on a prison planet (Fury 161) that is full of 25 inmates and a couple of guards and medics. These men are multiple murderers and rapists, generally bad people, and have lived in isolation without women for years.

Whilst crash-landing in the new planet, Ripley ends up in a coma and finds out that her crew are all dead. After being taken into the prison infirmary, Ripley finds the chief medic who explains the whole situation. Meanwhile...

Some inmates find an ox / dog (depending on which version you watch) which has suddenly died. What killed it they do not know but they find a nearby dead facehugger...oh bugger.

As the crew's dead are burned in the furnace, an alien pops out of the animal's body and runs into the abyss. I'm going to shorten down the rest of the plot now so basically the inmates happen to stumble upon the alien, get killed by the alien, then Ripley goes hunting along with the other inmates. The alien decides not to kill Ripley as she has found out she is carrying the next Alien Queen.

So there is a wild goose chase all along the prison, the alien outfoxes most of the prisoners and kills a lot of them. They then find the alien and trap it in a waste container which has no way out. End of story. Well it's never that easy though is it?

A crazy inmate breaks out, and goes into the container after killing some of his mates which lets the Alien out. The Alien then goes on another rampage and kills loads of people whilst Ripley and the crew decide on a plan to kill the Alien. Alien gets trapped, Ripley survives. Alien dies. The "company" come along, attempt to take Ripley back after deciding they want the Queen for research but Ripley decides against it and jumps in the fire to kill herself and the queen.

Well I expected quite a good film and the main problem with this film is that its predecessor was amazing. The plot of this film was not great, got boring at times, and was very different from the previous two films in the franchise.

I don't like the fact that they killed off the survivors from the last film in the first scene. And it was quite predictable how it ended. The Alien also was too CGI based as well, so was nowhere near as scary as the other films. This may have something to do with the lighting in the film to be wholly different. This film has lots of bright areas, whilst the other films has lots of dark areas.

It wasn't too bad though and there were a few entertaining pieces. But it's not a film I would recommend. Pretty much like Predator 2.

In the end you find that you are not as bothered about the Alien anymore, it's not a scary monster, it seems too fake. Which is a shame.

Overall 62%