In a moment of boredom and unwilling to sit through Jeremy bloody Kyle yet again I shuffled through my DVD collection and, fancying something in a sci-fi vain, settled for 'Alien 3: 2-Disc Special Edition'. Not the best movie on the shelf but one I hadn't seen for a while. Unlike Jeremy bloody Kyle! This, the third instalment of the 'Alien' saga, sees Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) as her emergency evacuation pod crash lands onto Fiorina 161, a desolate planet inhabited by the former inmates of a maximum security facility. It is not long before she realises that an alien was also onboard the craft and has now taken refuge in the mining facility. With no ...  Read the complete review

It had to happen. Alien, was brilliantly creepy and atmospheric, whilst sequel Aliens expanded the story, converting the franchise into an intelligent action film. Inevitably, the studio decided to go for film number three; and that's where it all started to go horribly wrong. Alien 3 takes up where Aliens left off. Having escaped from the alien queen with Newt, Hicks and Bishop, Ripley crash lands on a prison colony planet. Inevitably, she unwittingly brings along another unwelcome xenomorph and soon the killing starts all over again. The only really notable thing about Alien 3 that it marks the Hollywood directorial debut of David Fincher (Fight ...  Read the complete review

Movie: Alien 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Story Alien 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This movie takes place where the films about aliens stopped. You can watch the film apart from the other films, which is quiet good if you ask me. A lost Alien causes a fire in the spaceship called the Sulaco. As a result, all people who are there escape via an escape capsule that is present on the spaceship. They arrive on another planet and soon discover that this is a kind of a prison planet. Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) also discovers ...  Read the complete review

Any list of great sequels would have to include the 1986 film Aliens, a rollercoaster follow up to the Ridley Scott classic with great characters and bravura direction by a young and inventive James Cameron. The only problem was that, somewhere along the line, if 20th Century Fox wanted to wring more money from the franchise (and of course they did) they had to come up with a way of topping it - or least making a film good enough to stand as a blood relative to the first two. The possibilities were endless. The aliens somehow end up on earth? A trip to the alien homeworld? However endless these possibilities were they passed the studio by completely. Instead we got a ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on The Student Room and Flixster Alien 3, although the worst of the initial four films, is still a solid action film thanks to the presence of Sigourney Weaver in her most famous role, as badass soldier Ellen Ripley, and also thanks to the direction of David Fincher who, despite numerous fallouts with Fox over the film, still managed to knockout a solid film, that is considerably better if you decide to check out the Director's Cut, which remedies the normal film's numerous problems, pacing and otherwise. The film opens as Ripley, Newt, and Hicks return from the stasis they were put in at the end of the second film. ...  Read the complete review