Movie Spoiler: Alien3

Many couldn’t get into Alien3 from the get-go, which comprised the integrity of the franchise by killing off Newt and Hicks from Aliens.  Understandably, fans of the franchise were hurt and disappointed that the producers could callously allow the screenwriter to dispatch characters the previous film invested so much time and heart into.  They're done away with in a rather hasty and cheap fashion as we see an alien attacking the hibernation tanks during the opening credits causing a fire, an emergency deployment, and a crash landing.  Newt's corpse isn't even played by Carrie Henn (who, granted, never made another film again; as neither did her replacement Danielle Edmond).  The dialogue is often schlocky and the new characters mostly idiots.  From the start, he alien is a CGI-nightmare that moves with a spry quickness and looks like an insidious version of Dobby from Harry Potter.  The finale includes speedy camerawork through tunnels from the alien’s perspective like we're in a video game.  It's mostly an exercise in mood as the movie resembles music videos like "Express Yourself" and "Janie's Got a Gun," which director David Fincher only created a few years before.  If anything, this movie was an opportunity for Fincher to get his feet wet in preparation for Se7en.  I can't dog on him too much for trying to put lipstick on this pig.  It was his first feature and he was hired to doll up an albeit original, yet uninspired and pointless script.  Some noirish elements work well, but the overall production has a very superficial quality to it, which may have been part of the look the filmmakers were unfortunately going for.

The filmmakers tinker with the trademark musical hook accompanying
the studio hook, ending with some ominously executed strings

The 337-EVE Escape Shuttle

Crashlanding on Fiorina "Fury" 161

When we first find Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), she's in stasis mode on the USS Sulaco, along with Newt, Hicks, and Bishop (Lance Henriksen), who all technically "survived" Aliens.  But, wouldn't you know it?  There's an alien on board (surprise!) who starts to mess with the hibernation bed, which results in a fire on the ship.  An automatic emergency evacuation system sends the tanks into an 337EVE model shuttle that is whisked away from the USS Sulaco towards nearby planet Fiorina “Fury” 161, an outer-veil mineral ore refinery and Double Y Chromosome-Work correctional facility Maximum Security that has been whittled down to just a few prisoners.  The shuttle crashes into the ocean.  A cloaked doctor by the name of Clemens (Charles Dance) discovers Ripley’s body and carries her inside a facility.  A group of others try to locate other bodies.  A man makes record of the salvage and with a team of bulls, they pull the ship out of the water.

A very vocal prisoner, Dillon (Charles S. Dutton), leads a prayer.  The leader Andrews (Brian Glover) announces that the survivor is a woman.  The prisoners complain that her presence is unacceptable.  He orders that she remain in the infirmary.  Clemens tends to Ripley, who wakes up while he administers a stabilizer.  He informs her they everyone else died on her escape craft and then takes her to the 337EVE.  Ripley visits Newt’s body in the morgue.  She manipulates her body and demands an autopsy from Clemens.  She deceptively suggests Newt may have cholera, as to not have to explain her true motivations.  When he opens her chest, it shows that she drowned as he initially assessed.  Andrews and Aaron (Ralph Brown), also known as 85, disagree with cremating her body, but Clemens, at the behest of Ripley, insists.

Frank (Carl Chase) and Murphy (Christopher Fairbank) drag a bull into the butcher area, where they find a face-hugger.

Andrews conducts a funeral for Newt and Hicks and their bodies are burned.  Dillon adds his two cents.

Ripley's bloody intuitive premonition

The maggot-infested steer in the butcher shop gives birth to a chest-burster, who crawls out and then sprints off with cat-like agility.

Ripley's got a brand new shag

Ripley shaves her head and takes a shower.  Dillon approaches Rains (Christopher John Fields) and Boggs (Leon Herbert), who share their concern about Golic (Paul McGann), who they think smells and is weird.  Ripley enters the cafeteria and the men just stare at her and say nothing in a cold and hostile fashion.  Dillon informs her that he’s a murderer and rapist of women, bringing up weakness of a man's constitution in the face of temptation, but she doesn’t flinch.  Later, Clemens informs her that the prisoners had already completed their sentences and chose to stay on the planet (hence why we never see them jailed) and ended up subscribing to their own religion.  She asks him if he’s attracted to her.

Murphy steps into a mess of alien matter while cleaning out a wind tunnel.  He investigates a creature burrowed in a hole and, startled, falls into the turbine.  Ripley and Clemens talk after spending the night together.  Andrews summons Clemens concerning the recent death.  They investigate the tunnel with Aaron.  Clemens suspects that something unusual must have killed Murphy.  He surprises Ripley when she is at the shuttle operating a flight recorder.  He presses her about what she’s not sharing with him. 

Rains, Boggs, Golic go off on the task of finding Murphy.  Andrews sits Clemens down in his office.  He suspects something is up, as there has been some high priority contact made with the planet.  He threatens to expose Clemens to Ripley if he doesn’t cooperate.  Ripley recovers the remains of Bishop, but must contend with a group of prisoners who attack and proceed to rape her.  Dillon arrives just in time and begins to beat them down.  Rains, Boggs, and Golic find a string of lighted candles.   Rains is the next to die, then Boggs, sending Golic off running.  

Ripley manages reconstitute the damaged Bishop.  He shares flight record data with her, informing her of her worst fears: an alien had been on board the USS Sulaco during stasis.  Eric (Niall Buggy) finds an incoherent Golic in the cafeteria.  A group of men approach and apprehend Golic.  Ripley shuts Bishop off.  Dillon, Clemens, Andrews, and Aaron take Golic to the infirmary.  Andrews accuses Golic of killing the others, but Dillon defends him.  Ripley shares the whole back story with Andrews, who is disbelieving, of course.  He tells her that their firearm stash is limited.  Her response is simply: “Then, we’re fucked.”

Aaron escorts her to the infirmary, where she talks to Clemens.  Golic wakes up talking to himself.  Ripley inquires about Clemens’ reasons for being on the planet, which involved a prison sentence for misprescribing painkillers and causing the death of several people.  The alien enters and kills Clemens, but spares Ripley (and Golic). 

Dillon speaks at a meeting.  Andrews expresses his opinion that Golic was responsible for the two deaths.  Ripley arrives to warn everyone.  The creature attacks and kills Andrews.  Dillon sermonizes with the prisoners.  Ripley educates them that fire is their only protection.  Morse (Danny Webb) threatens Ripley.  Ripley tells Aaron that they need to trap the creature in the ventilation shaft.  He shows her the toxic waste disposal.  She gets the men to help her execute her plan to kill the alien.  They spread a chemical around the area with mops. 

The alien attacks one of them, who drops an inflaming agent and sets off an explosion of pyrotechnics, which many of the men parish and/or are injured in.  By sacrificing Junior (Holt McCallany), they lock the alien in the toxic waste disposal.  Dillon sets off the sprinkler system to help subdue the flames and holds another vigil.  Aaron informs Ripley that she’s a top priority as far as the company is concerned.  

Morse guards Golic, who knocks him out.  For some inexplicable reason, while communicating with the company, Ripley requests permission to terminate the alien, thinking they’d say yes.  She’s denied.  Duh.  The voices in Golic's head convince him to kill Arthur (Deobia Oparei), who is guarding the disposal area, and free the alien.  Dillon and Ripley are informed that the alien has escaped.  At the disposal site, Ripley begins to fall ill and enters the sleep bay.  Arthur helps her scan her body.  She learns she’s pregnant with an alien baby.  

Dillon waits around with the prisoners, all armed with weapons.  They decide to make their way to the furnace.  Aaron refuses to give Ripley the code to communicate to the company so she can deceive them into aborting the rescue due to planet toxicity.  He hesitates to acknowledge the impending two-hour arrival of company, while Ripley searches for the alien.  Thinking she found her, she mistakenly spears an old pipe and wakes up the alien in the process.  She finds Dillon and shares with him that she gets “to be the mother of the year,” hoping that he’ll assist her in her suicide.  He refuses to do so until the queen alien is dead. 

Another meeting is held.  Ripley has to school them that they’re expendables “who found God at the ass end of space.”  The plan is to use themselves as bait to drown the creature in hot lead.  At this point, the alien starts killing more men, but it’s hard to tell whom, as these white English guys all start to blend into each other.  David (Pete Postlethwaite, who would get nominated for an Oscar the following year for In the Name of the Father) gets its attention.  More die, including David.  The company arrives.  Dillon tries to save Kevin (Philip Davis).  Eric dies.  Aaron greets the company man (Hi Ching) who wants to see Ripley.  Gregor (Peter Guinness) dies.  Ripley and Dillon manage to lure the alien to a place where Morse is able to trap her.  Dillon serves himself as bait in a crevice, where Morse pours the lead in, covering them both.  The alien escapes.  Ripley unleashes the sprinkler system on the creature and it implodes.

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The company arrives with Aaron and the man who designed Bishop (also played by Lance Henrickson) and corner Ripley and Morse.  She asks him for a guarantee that they’ll destroy the alien before she jumps into the pool of lead.  They shoot Morse.  Aaron attacks Bishop and he’s shot dead by the company.  Bleeding blood, Bishop learns that he’s not a droid, even though he has already said as much.

Ripley does a dive backwards into the vat of molten lead as a music that sounds strangely like Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure plays in the background and her body cheesily fades into nothingness.  The company seals off the compound and escort Morse out.  We can hear audio of Ripley’s audio recording from the end of Alien.  The End.  Well, at least for the next five years.

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