Every David Fincher Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

11. Alien 3

Though Fincher commands an enormous amount of filmmaking clout these days, the same couldn't be said back in 1990, when Fox hired the 28-year-old music video director to make his feature debut on this sci-fi horror threequel.

Much has been written about the film's notoriously troubled production which saw Fincher battle Fox executives throughout shooting, causing him to eventually disown the final product.

But Alien 3 certainly isn't a bad film by any means, and easily the most interesting entry into the series post-Aliens.

Despite committing the unforgivable sin of killing fan favourite characters Newt (Carrie Henn) and Hicks (Michael Biehn) off-screen, it gave Sigourney Weaver another meaty go-around as heroine Ripley, the supporting cast (especially Charles Dance and Charles S. Dutton) were grand, and the penal colony setting was nothing if not uniquely atmospheric.

It has pacing issues coming out the wazoo and fans remain split on its bleak ending - which, clearly, should've been the end of Ripley's story - but as far as career-worst movies go, it's far from an embarrassment.