Alien³

20th Century Fox (1992)

6.4

346,256

USA | English | Color | 01:54

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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.

Cast View all

	Sigourney Weaver	Ripley
	Charles S. Dutton	Dillon
	Charles Dance	Clemens
	Paul McGann	Golic
	Brian Glover	Andrews
	Ralph Brown	Aaron
	Danny Webb	Morse
	Christopher John Fields	Rains
	Holt McCallany	Junior
	Lance Henriksen	Bishop II
	Christopher Fairbank	Murphy
	Carl Chase	Frank
	Leon Herbert	Boggs
	Vincenzo Nicoli	Jude
	Pete Postlethwaite	David
	Paul Brennen	Troy
	Clive Mantle	Clive
	Peter Guinness	Gregor
	Deobia Oparei	Arthur
	Phil Davis	Kevin
	Niall Buggy	Eric
	Hi Ching	Company Man
	Danielle Edmond	Newt
	Simon Crane	Prisoner
	Nick Gillard	Prisoner

Crew View all

Director	David Fincher
Writer	Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Vincent Ward, David Giler, Walter Hill, Larry Ferguson
Producer	Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill, Ezra Swerdlow, Sigourney Weaver
Musician	Elliot Goldenthal
Photography	Alex Thomson

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Added Date	Mar 10, 2012 13:58:28
Modified Date	Jun 24, 2025 17:28:40

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CONTAINS SPOILERS...

Acclaimed director David Fincher 's promising career was lucky to survive this astonishingly wrong-headed, almost universally-despised second sequel to Alien (1979). The film careens into oblivion virtually from the beginning, as Lt. Ellen Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ) is the only survivor of a crash-landing on a hellish, God-forsaken prison planet. Not only does the crash kill little Newt, completely obviating the entire point of the superior Aliens (1986), but Fincher then compounds his betrayal of that film's fans by having Ripley attend the girl's gruesome autopsy and barely bat an eye as the child's chest is bloodily ripped open with a steel bonesaw. Things just go downhill from there, as the rather unthreatening rapists and murderers harass Ripley and curse a great deal before being torn apart by large fans, having their heads crushed by the unconvincing CGI alien, and finally volunteering to be murdered by the beast rather than letting the evil Company get hold of it. Fincher does the best he can with a terrible script, and there are some nice supporting turns by Charles S. Dutton , Charles Dance , and Brian Glover , but nothing could redeem the film's first 15 minutes. By the time Ripley takes a suicidal swan-dive into a vat of molten lead, cradling a baby alien as it explodes from her chest, many viewers will not know whether to reach for the remote control or a warm bath and a razorblade. A loathsome experience by any standard, Alien 3 still made enough money for Weaver to return as a Ripley clone in Alien Resurrection (1997). -- Robert Firsching