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Alien³

1992

David Fincher

Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann ...

5.9

56,359

Sci-Fi. Horror Despite the efforts of Ripley and the space marines in the film Aliens, an embryonic alien infiltrates the starship. It accidentally triggers the ship's emergency systems, dropping the escape capsule to the surface of a nearby planet. Ripley finds herself in a prison colony peopled by a religious cult composed of former murderers and rapists. Meanwhile, the alien has managed to grow into a new and deadly form, and is picking off the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Scout Tafoya rogerebert.com	"Weaver gives another richly imagined performance, quite different in tone from the preceding two, and Fincher's direction has passages of eerie, at times nightmarish beauty, and more than a few quasi-experimental touches"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"The film never recovers [from its first scenes] and busily hurries towards its absurd 'transcendent' finale (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The script is sometimes intentionally funny. Ms. Weaver has a brisk, no-nonsense approach to the material. She never betrays it"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Fincher gives the images new resonance, creating a provocative fusion of suspense and feeling. Weaver is in spectacular form."	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"It does win points for stylistic bravado and the courage to take the series' darkest turns, but it loses those points by being unforgivably dull."	NEG
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"If there's suspense in the movie, it's in wondering why the title is a cubed sign, rather than '3' or 'III' or just 'Even More Aliens'."	NEG

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