Every David Fincher Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

10. Alien 3

While many have come to this movie's defence upon future viewings, there is little doubt that this is Fincher's weakest directorial effort. Only brought in to the director's chair after first choice Vincent Ward was sacked, Fincher did his best to create and implement his own style, and does manage to get another strong performance from Sigourney Weaver in Alien 3. Unfortunately Fincher's nihilistic ways sat quite poorly within the Alien franchise, leaving us for the first time in the franchise with no-one to cheer for.

The movie starts off in poor fashion with the dud call to kill off Newt and Hicks off screen, in the process cheapening all that happened in the brilliant Aliens. Had Newt or Hicks been killed by the roaming Xenomorph early on in this film then their characters would have at least received some justice, but having them die off screen only managed to kick events off on a bad footing that the film could never truly recover from.

The move back to a singular Alien and removing the access to weaponry that made for a fair(er) fight in the second entry wasn't necessarily a bad call, with the 'catch and bait' scene climactic scene delivering the goods. The problem comes with the company we are forced to keep, a series of prisoners without a redeeming trait between them. Having Ripley engage and even sleep with these people just felt completely out of place, especially when all we wanted was her taking on another Xenomorph or two.