Alien 3

Year: 1992

Grade: C+

Country: USA

Director: Fincher

Review

(theatrical cut) – the alien series got worse with each film, let’s get that out in the open right away. aliens probably should have been the last film, but film is a business so they made two more. i saw this film in the theater a while back but hadn’t seen it recently. after watching the first two a couple weeks ago i figured i should finish off the series. this installment is decent enough to make it into the series in part because fincher has a good sense of how to move the camera. other than the camera movement and some of the performances, though, the film is pretty weak. there was a big fall out between fincher and fox so i don’t know how much of the film can be attributed to him and how much to fox, but what resulted isn’t up to the same standard as the first two in the series. the music isn’t as atmospheric, the story doesn’t offer anything new and the ending is old hat and longish. it’s of acceptable quality as its own film, but not when measured against the first two films.