Review of Species III (2005) by Michael M — 09 Apr 2007

Full review of all three Species movies:

Species.

A b-movie that became a sleeper. After following some instructions from space, the resulting subject escapes its cage when she is being gassed. A team consisting of an assassin, an empath, and other is made to track the oft naked young woman, who goes through a rapid growth aboard a train, ending up as a 20 something year old bombshell. They find her in LA, searching for a man to mate with in hopes of having nonhuman offspring to kill the human race. There is a good amount of boobs, and the script is decent enough. It is not a masterpiece by any means, but the combination of boobs and a decent b script makes for a decent flick.

Species 2.

This movie goes wrong immediately by breaking Rule #1 of movie making: never bring back your deceased main character with a stupid plot device (cloning, in this case). This time, the first manned mission to Mars brings back more than rock samples, as two of the three astronauts are infected with alien DNA, slowly taking them over. The first astronaut, a woman, is killed after her alien offspring rips out of her before being subsequently killed. The other infected astronaut, a man, begins dipping his wick in almost anything that moves, whether they are willing or not. This results in exploding wombs and young alien hybrids that he hides in a barn. All the death brings back the two protagonists from the last movie to again stop an alien bent on destroying humans with sex. The acting is nonexistant, the gore is disgusting, silly and unnecessary for the most part and the movie has more holes than a sponge. No amount of boobs can save this travesty. That is a rare feat.

Species 3.

Leaving off with the piece of crap that was part 2, it took Sci-Fi channel to revive this "franchise". This completely changes the focus of the series, as it is less about sex and more about survival. That is probably what makes this movie passable instead of deplorable. The daughter of the aliens from the last movie is now a "perfect" strain, supposedly more powerful than her parents (though this is never displayed). But the scientist that is secretly keeping her has intentions of removing the human from the alien strain and creating the "perfect" alien without any human. There are things in this movie that have no explanation, such as the existence of surviving offspring from part 2 or how some scientist with a lab in his basement has advanced knowledge about the aliens from the first two movies that is supposedly classified. But at the end of the day, it's an ok little monster movie with a predictable ending. But it is still leaps and bounds better than part 2.

FINAL RATINGS:

Species 8/10.

Species 2 0/10.

Species 3 6/10.