The very worst of the franchise

Alien 3 is the third best of the franchise. Honestly, while it has its flaws it's not a bad movie, it's just not the sequel to Aliens that everyone had hoped for. As much as I loved Aliens, it had a twinge of camp to it, and Alien 3 was just bleak.

I liked it. Hated that it veered so far from the Aliens story, but still an interesting film.

a disappointment for sure.

While it still wouldn't be great, I'd dislike Alien 3 a lot less if it existed in a vacuum in some alternate doomed continuity but it's a terrible sequel that literally killed the series & it has unsuccessfully been trying to "resurrect" itself for 30 years. It's difficult to comprehend why this dreary, hopeless, nihilistic arthouse attempt at an Alien sequel is what the studio wanted as it's difficult to imagine a less commercially appealing, crowd-pleasing Alien film than Alien 3.