Alien 3 Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has crashed landed on the penal colony. Sand roars around the prison as they take her, a little girl and a badly damaged android back to their habitat. Amongst the wreckage, something is scurrying around, it leaps on unsuspecting dog, and wraps itself around on breeding with the dog to create a new nearly stoppable alien. An alien that will take the prisoners out one by one.
Alien 3 is infamous for having 6 scripts written and redrafted for it; the result is of all of those scripts Frankensteined together, and it's more than evident. The film feels aimless, if there was no Alien, nothing would have happened this entire 112 minutes. Also with having too many cooks, we left with these contrived predicaments. This is a penal colony without weapons? Clearly in an universe where Aliens like this exist wouldn't make sense to arm prisoners so that you don't lose out on your huge investment? Then the religious aspect mixed with the genetic syndrome of the men; like to make them all mentally hindered and give no exposition why they were sent to work for a corporation is frustrating. Also to have one non-XXY doctor adds to that bafflement. The conclusion is equally bewildering, I don't want to have a spoiler warning, but my God could they have come up with an easier way to bring the film to an end.
David Fincher will hopefully never direct a film that is as ugly as this one. Brown close, brown sets, brown filters, brown terrain, brown, brown, brown. Also the CGI of the alien, and I am being literal here, makes it look like a turd. The lack of budget for the Alien itself means that the cast interact with the alien in B-movie style, almost comparable to a kids' show that throw a teddy at the presenter and have them wrestle with it. Editing is atrocious as well; cut to first person view alien, cut of over shoulder of prisoner, repeat, rinse, wash.
Then there is the acting. You have this great cast that of character actors and a noticeable face beloved for the previous installments in the franchise, and they do nothing. Dialogue is boring and the delivery is clumsy to boot. fincher clearly doesn't give the actors context to the scene so they just deliver the script as is, also their reactions are hilarious, being attacked by the alien brings on some sort of relief like sensation followed by a twitch if I am not mistaken.
The only thing that is redeemable, and this is really just for the nerds, is to watch the film and read the entire history of the project, see where bits and bobs of each previous rendition of this film were added and see if you can pick them out. I nerded out for the first hour but the last 50 minutes are so incomprehensible that I should have just turned it off.
Alien 3 is infamous for having 6 scripts written and redrafted for it; the result is of all of those scripts Frankensteined together, and it's more than evident. The film feels aimless, if there was no Alien, nothing would have happened this entire 112 minutes. Also with having too many cooks, we left with these contrived predicaments. This is a penal colony without weapons? Clearly in an universe where Aliens like this exist wouldn't make sense to arm prisoners so that you don't lose out on your huge investment? Then the religious aspect mixed with the genetic syndrome of the men; like to make them all mentally hindered and give no exposition why they were sent to work for a corporation is frustrating. Also to have one non-XXY doctor adds to that bafflement. The conclusion is equally bewildering, I don't want to have a spoiler warning, but my God could they have come up with an easier way to bring the film to an end.
David Fincher will hopefully never direct a film that is as ugly as this one. Brown close, brown sets, brown filters, brown terrain, brown, brown, brown. Also the CGI of the alien, and I am being literal here, makes it look like a turd. The lack of budget for the Alien itself means that the cast interact with the alien in B-movie style, almost comparable to a kids' show that throw a teddy at the presenter and have them wrestle with it. Editing is atrocious as well; cut to first person view alien, cut of over shoulder of prisoner, repeat, rinse, wash.
Then there is the acting. You have this great cast that of character actors and a noticeable face beloved for the previous installments in the franchise, and they do nothing. Dialogue is boring and the delivery is clumsy to boot. fincher clearly doesn't give the actors context to the scene so they just deliver the script as is, also their reactions are hilarious, being attacked by the alien brings on some sort of relief like sensation followed by a twitch if I am not mistaken.
The only thing that is redeemable, and this is really just for the nerds, is to watch the film and read the entire history of the project, see where bits and bobs of each previous rendition of this film were added and see if you can pick them out. I nerded out for the first hour but the last 50 minutes are so incomprehensible that I should have just turned it off.