Alien3

Now I know why I didn’t watch this one when it first came out. I could tell, even then, that this Alien would, ironically, lack any real bite. Indeed, despite its plethora of viscera, this outing lacks that certain, all-important visceral impact. We’ve seen all of this by now, two movies worth, and without any real new wrinkles to the saga, the tale just doesn’t have the effect it once did. Plus, there’s a bit too much stupid in the story here. (Really, when there’s a horrifying beast running around being murderous, just tell somebody, for Christ’s sake. Why keep the facts to yourself?) One more outing showed up in this sequence before the later Prometheus revival--which successfully injected a new viewpoint to the saga--but by this stage of the process viewers were starting to wonder what was the point, besides delivering a denouement that, it turned out, wasn't really. Like all annoying bugs, this one deserved swatting.