Its a film with a twist some love it and some hate it. I loved the Directors cut of the movie Its longer and better. Alot of script problems and so on which made this film look crap. It has a great ending to the saga untill they made AR
I think Alien 3 is a great movie. It had some problems(like ADI) But I like it. It had great actors and the plot was good. The alien was just like The first one but more vicious.
I liked Alien 3. I didn't think it was the best way to take the series, but I didn't hate it. Alien 4 is where it took a hearty turn from the plausible reality of the others.
Alien 3 was better than 95% of any movies with a "3" behind them. At the time, I think people were disappointed because it wasn't as great as Alien and the amazing Aliens...but looking back I think we can all agree it wasn't that bad. Some of the scenes are terrifying, especially the finale when they are all running from the alien as fast as they can to try to trap it.
The "twist" was that Ripley had an alien inside her the whole time and that she had to kill herself. Not too many movies these days would kill off the main character in a series.