“Alien 3” is a weak sequel in just about every meaning of the word. It misses out what made the first one an eerie, haunted house in space classic and what made the second outing a terrifying and action-packed war. “Alien 3” ditches the sci-fi, the horror and the action in place of a dull gore fest.

Within the first few minutes of “Alien 3”, any resolution made in the last film “Aliens” is rendered useless as we discover Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver “Ghostbusters”, “Avatar”) was the only survivor of a crash on a prison planet. The series famous style of alien named ‘Alien’ (or Xenomorphs) has found its way onto this prison planet and is killing people off, one by one. Ripley must help a band of criminals comprised of murderers, thieves and rapists in order to try and kill the last remaining Alien.

Sigourney Weaver is dull this time as Ripley. No shred of her humanity appears to be left and I hate how she has this almost spiritual connection with the Alien. The other characters are severely dull and just pointlessly spout out bad language. The Alien looks pathetic. This time it bursts out of a dog and has some different features due to its a change of host. The Alien scurries around with horrible camera angles that try to show the view of the creature much like the style of shots they use for the shark in “Jaws” but there it is done well.

“Alien 3” seems like a very bleak prison movie that has simply had the Alien creature added in at the last minute. “Alien 3” is a slap in the face to the first two movies as not one moment is scary, not one moment features any sci-fi as the prison planet has virtually no technology on it, not one moment features any action and all-round the film just isn’t fun to watch. It’s a pointless add-on to the series in an attempt to make more money without actually putting effort into the product.