Alien 3 (1993)

Underrated, best way to start this. After the classics Alien & Aliens, this had alot to live up too and despite a few falls, i like it. It picks up the story and the ship that Ripley (Weaver) Hicks, Android Bishop and Newt had used to escape from in Aliens has crashed. We find out in (a brilliant) opening sequence that their sleeping pods had been broken into by a face hugger Alien. We later find out that in crash landing all but ripley had been killed and Android Bishop was desroyed. Also Ripley had been impregnated by the face hugger alien and was now carrying an alien egg in her. They crash land on this Prison unit planet and Ripley is forced to stay there due to lack of other options. A dog, used by people of this prison planet to help search out ripleys destroyed ship, is unluckily enough to to be victim of the alien and the alien is transformed into a alien on four legs, unlike to legged in first two filmsFirst off i loved the idea of alien on 4 legs and ripley having an alien in her, all approached brilliantly. it's also worth mentioning the Director was david Fincher who would later go on to make classics like Fight Club & Se7en. Though prison idea works, i liked the ideas i've heard were nearly chosen before film was made. one of them had it being set in a religious community in a huge wooden floating sphere in space. I thought this was interesting as the Alien could of been shown as comming of the devil in eyes of the monks on this wooden planet and would of brought up many interesting dimetions. However, the inmates in the prison do have a monk like out look and feel to them, so i guess they kept the idea, kind of.may not be best of series, but it looks great, it's kind of slow and some of the dialog isn't great, but it has got atmosphere. It's tense when it wants to be and direction is great. Given the little time Fincher had to make this, he did great job. Not the best, but it had hell of alot to lvie up too.