Review of Alien³ (1992) by Stephenj2010 — 13 May 2020

6.3/10.

It may not be scary as it is, but while taking place in a prison planet may be a good idea, but it got messed up, some of the prisoners are dislikable and crazy, and Ripley has gone intro a echo trip.

Too much nothing to do, it'll make you doze off, and fall asleep. It was not good.

The story is not that good, and boring, mainly due to an unfinished script, and the film almost isn't as scary as the first two films at all, none of this movie have the same power as the first two movie, and the worse is, the scare factor is far below than of its predecessors of the first two films, in fact, the movie feels like a comedy, talking show and doing working and the characters picking up on a street than being a scary and a blockbuster sci-fi movie.

It's very predictable, Usually, you already get to know if the Xenomorph runner is on a prison planet right before the prisoners meet their death by the Xenomorph.

It went through development hell with the movie's quality of the movie suffers from a troubling development, especially regarding the script, it was supposed to be Ripley found herself in Arceon, the wooden planet with a Xenomorph in it, and...well, Twohy's proposed script was rejected and was followed by the first draft of what would become the final shooting script, and it was replaced with the prison planet in the final version of the movie.

Even if the movie tries to have some emotional moments, most of those scenes just have more exposition rather than talking about or showing how they feel or express what anyone loved to do.

There was a false advertising that in the teaser, the announcer states that "on Earth, everyone can hear you scream" implying that it was going to take place on Earth, but as mentioned above, it was actually set on a prison planet, and the Alien would not come to Earth until ''Alien vs. Predator'' in 2004. This is due to the script not being finished by the time the trailer was made. By far, Alien 3 is not a good sequel to the first two movies, well... not as bad as (cough) the fourth (cough) movie.