Storyline
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.
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Cast
Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Deobia Oparei, Holt McCallany, Christopher John Fields, Lance Henriksen, Danny Webb, Pete Postlethwaite, Vincenzo Nicoli, Peter Guinness, Ralph Brown, Paul McGann, Christopher Fairbank, Tom Woodruff Jr., Tom Woodruff Jr., Charles S. Dutton, Carl Chase, Brian Glover, Niall Buggy, Phil Davis, Paul Brennen, Clive Mantle, Hi Ching, Leon Herbert, Danielle Edmond
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Reviews
91
Alien3 is a grimly seductive end-of-the-world thriller, with pop-tragic overtones that build in resonance as the movie goes on.
88
If Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) had more surprises and James Cameron's Aliens (1986) more thrills, David Fincher's austere, low-tech, darkly funny Alien 3 has more sharply observed characters.
80
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.
60
Ironically, Alien is not a bad movie. In fact -- here's the rub -- it's too interesting to make an exciting summer flick.
50
Fincher's camerawork gives the movie a jittery feel, and his video-trained eye lends the prison sets the look of a dilapidated cathedral, but again, there's really nothing here that we haven't seen before, and better, at that. Nice title, though.
