Alien 3 (DVD)

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 ...

Few films have had as much troubled production as Alien 3. Director David Fincher was brought into the project late into its development; there were numerous creative differences in scriptwriting; not to mention all the pressure of living up to the successes of the two near-perfect blockbusters that preceded it. Fincher reportably disowned the film before editing even began. Deep in hyper sleep, Ripley, Newt, and Hicks, crash land in their escape pod after an onboard fire on the Sulaco spaceship. Ripley is the only survivor, and when she finally comes around she is suspicious as to what actually started the fire in the first place. Unluckily for her, and ...

Calling Ripley, calling Ripley.... Dear old Sigourney, you feisty vixen, you'll be famous for ever for one reason and one reason only. Forget 'Working Girl' (I wish) and 'Gorillas In The Mist' (if only), Ms Weaver's claim to fame is undoubtedly down to just one thing - her lengthy, slip-slidy and very slimily unpleasant relationship with old Long Head Double Jaw Dribble-a-lot, the ALIEN. Old Leather Head's a mite long in the tooth now and any pretence of mystery and dark shades have long since gone and the Alien series now relies exclusively on the suspense of how many people are going to survive the onslaught and how ...