Everyoneelse on the space capsule bringing the sleeping survivors of theNostromo back to earth has died except Ripley. She's been asleepfor 50 years or so and has been shaken up in the crash, so she'slooking a little the worse for wear with a black eye and deathlypallor. Furthermore in this latter day version of a medievaldungeon she's landed they dress her in convict gray and shave herhead which makes her fit right in with the inmates. The onlyperson there who's even remotely pleasant is the doctor, himself aformer inmate, with whom Ripley asks to have sex (it's been over 50years, you know); while we don't see them in the act, theimplication was it was purely the utilitarian satisfaction of anurge, still Ripley has to pay the price for it later on. The whole visual milieu of the film is grim. The colorspectrum is dark browns and blacks, dirty tans and grays, fiery,hellish yellows and reds. The only spots of other colors are a fewpieces of turquoise blue stained glass in the doctor's quarters, tolet you know he had some aesthetic sensibilities, I guess. The setis something like an abandoned underground steel mill with miles of filthy, rotting, decaying tunnels. The only organic matter we seeis blood and gore, the monster, and this wholly gruesome pack ofconvicts who do, out of terror and the notion they have nothing tolose, do come together under Ripley's leadership to try to kill thething with no weapons but the decaying prison itself to use. "Aliens" at least had some spots of humorous repartee. "Aliens3" has almost none. It's grim, grim, grim. And though Sigourneyhas a few heroic moments, she's sick and weak and not up to her previous standards. Though this time--I think--she finally does inthe alien bug mother and its children. I hope so, I don't thinkthe world can use yet another Alien movie....
