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A penal colony and its inhabitants, a religious brotherhood of ex-convicts, is infiltrated by an alien when a ship carrying Ripley crash lands there.
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February 6, 2001
If Ridley Scott's "Alien" (1979) had more surprises and James Cameron's "Aliens" (1986) more thrills, David Fincher's austere, low-tech, darkly funny "Alien³" has more sharply observed characters. The script -- reflecting the struggle of nine writers -- even has a subtext. This must be the first $50 million thriller that also functions as an AIDS allegory.Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crash-lands on Fury 161, an all-male religious colony inhabited by celibate former convicts. "No rubbers, no…
