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| Year: 1992 |
| Director: David Fincher |
| Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Danny Webb, Holt McCallany, Lance Henriksen |
| Genres: Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror, Drama, Action |
| Runtime: 114 min. |
| IMDB: This film on IMDB |
| Soundtrack: available |
n 1979, we discovered in space no one can hear you scream. In 1992, we will discover, on Earth, EVERYONE can hear you scream. |
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| Date: 2007-10-04 01:15:54 |
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1992, and 20th Century Fox gave the world ALIEN³.
For the director's chair, Fox hired silver screen virgin -- David Fincher; who was at the peak of a successful career directing music videos and television commercials, while also having worked at George Lucas' ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) during the 80's.
The tale of ALIEN³ takes place on one of the most inhospitable environments (asides from Los Angeles) ever portrayed on film. Human criminals and an Alien scream away at each other in the cinematic equivalent of 'Hillary Clinton Vs. Condaleeza Rice' in a Bangkok backstreet prostitute fight. The location is Fury 161, an evacuated lead mine and prison colony with only a fraction of it's original population wishing to voluntarily remain of they're own accord.
There, some of society's most wretched and vile convicts have been isolated; murderers, child rapists, serial killers and loons have formed a sort of monastic order, living in the lead mining facilities. The prisoners (logically) have no weapons, no escape vehicle, no booze, no pornography, no TV, no internet access, no HBO and to make matters even worse, are all inclined to regularly shave their head and body hair, as the planet is infested with "future" lice. On this delightful planet arrives Lt. Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver), the future equivalent of Typhoid Mary.
No sooner has Ripley shaved, deaths immediately begin occurring throughout Fury 161 with a rather suspicious Xenomorphic air about them . Realizing what she may have inadvertently brought Fury's unsuspecting residents from her visit to LV-426, Lt. Ellen Ripley goes about doing what must be done in order to save Fury's quickly dwindling prison population, and perhaps - humanity itself.
From this point onwards, the rest of the film is spent franticly running around, strenuously arguing, overly screaming and weeping through the depressing Fury 161 facility, while awaiting Bishop II (played by Lance Henriksen) to arrive to make his (gimmick) guest appearance.
On a more serious note, the plot does takes time to advance. The first half of the film is short on action, BIG on character introduction, development, tension and suspense. The thought of having weapons taken away adds even more to the terror as the theme goes into that of vulnerability/helplessness/defenseless. The power structure is reversed and the frustration is evident, and seeing how a group of prisoners, who's crimes are based on those of assumed power, deals with it is a very strong concept. Without the sympathy for Ripley from the previous ALIEN movies and only minor flashes of humanity from the prisoners themselves, the film is without sympathetic characters worthy of redemption. A truly wonderful change from the traditional film status-quo B.S..
Asides the undeserving criticism the film received on it's debut, ALIEN³'s superb intermixed UK & US cast, cinematography, excellent production values, beautiful art direction, flawless editing, menacing score, visually stunning set designs and not forgetting of course - skillful directing; make this an underrated masterpiece, that continues to find itself in greater appreciation in a modern day sea of mediocre Hollywood productions.
Despite the constant high level daily studio interference throughout the troubled production of ALIEN³ (back in 1991), Finchers directorial (debut) brilliance continues to shine throughout ALIEN³ in the above noted departments. All in all, this movie is a worthy conclusion to the ALIEN trilogy. It's my personal favorite in the series due to the multiple themes and concepts presented. Brilliantly acted and directed, and the prison/Gothic industrial setting is haunting and eerily beautiful.
ALIEN³ is akin to a fine wine; it matures with age.
An underrated if somewhat misunderstood masterpiece. |
| Date: 2008-03-19 16:12:22 |
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In 1979 when Ridley Scott released Alien, un be known to him he had created the first step in a legacy of science fiction films which would change the way we look at film forever, this was followed by the hugely successful James Cameron action masterpiece Aliens in 1986. So what now? How do you follow up arguably the most highly regarded science fiction horror films of all time? Although beset with huge problems in the production phase of the project, it was young upcoming director David Fincher who stepped up and took over from Renny Harlin who had originally been chosen to direct Alien 3 but walked out on the project only a couple of months into production due to directorial differences with the producers and the script. After finishing the first cut of the film and showing it to 20th century fox officials, it was deemed too raw and visually upsetting to release, so after filming Alien 3 without even a finished shooting script Fincher was ordered to cut the film down, which with it lost vital character building scenes and spliced the storyline of the film into a hard to follow mess. So it was no surprise that when it was released in 1992 it was met with a hate and disgust from loyal Alien and Aliens fanatics who were expecting Aliens part 2 rather than the dark, claustrophobic film they received. Now with the release of the Alien 3 special edition we can finally see how David Finchers original cut was going to be set out, with an added 33 minutes of extra footage, its like watching an entirely different film, the characters are more rounded and the storyline is more follow able, although I liked the original version this new edit is fantastic and after hearing from the fans who disliked the original they all say that if this film had been released originally there would have been no need for the dull Alien Resurrection and could have ended fantastically in a trilogy.
The Visuals of the film are shot in a beautifully haunting neo-Gothic way, always looking to keep the camera moving and not to stick in the same place for a long amount of time, Fincher is always choosing to shoot from a low angle along the floor upwards which brought an interesting look to the film as most of the lighting had to be done from beneath the sets because of the ceiling exposure on each individual camera shot, He gives the audience a sense of claustrophobia by cramming lots of set pieces into each frame and keeping the tones of colour down to a minimum, as the films cinematographer Alex Thompson pointed out,' Fincher kept saying, keep it dark, keep it dark' which made it difficult for Thompson to maintain any colour in the image. A trait which we have since gotten used to in Finchers films, The end result gave the film the dirty, gritty, hard-hitting look it needed and although there are still major plot holes (eggs on the sulaco?) in the film this new edit is definitely a step in the right direction for the film. The Alien 3 special edition gives you a better, clearer understanding of what Fincher was trying to accomplish and makes a bad film into a great film and subtly gives you an echo of the future into what David Fincher would achieve as a director. |
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