The case for Alien 3.

Its a flawed piece of work for sure, obviously hobbled by there being no finished script to begin with but there is much to love about both versions of the movie in the Quadrilogy boxset. But nothing is perfect. For a start it was different to the previous two, the ending in particular. The first two featured variations on the 'blew it out of the goddamn airlock' theme. The ending of Alien 3 was something else. I think the whole movie is a very human tale, much like the original. And like the 1979 film it also goes some way to recapture the sense of mystery of a single xenomorph rather than having a planet full of them. The cast I think were also a positive feature, some of the interplay between Charles Dance and Brian Glover in particular is delightful. When you see two British actors in scenes like that its almost like watching a friendly jousting contest with two men that clearly know their craft and enjoy delivering the lines of the script. And there are some fine examples of British swearing throughout the movie, that is using swearwords not as a shock tactic but to augment and boost the colour of your dialect. The part where Morse berates a fellow prisoner for carrying scissors in the wrong way is familiar to anyone who's worked in a British warehouse for its coarse affection. The only part I really have issue with is the beginning. I didn't see the alien queen carrying an extra egg under her arm to stash in the Sulaco when she was chasing Ripley and Newt towards the end of the previous movie (the ovapositor having been previously destroyed). And surely someone would have noticed it hanging there in the cryo-room. So I think overall it was a atmospheric horror story as opposed to an action adventure film which could be said of Aliens and Resurrection. Well worth another look I reckon.