This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

If you ever saw the classic eighties sci-fi/horror Xtro, you may be tempted to check out either of its sequels. Don't. Number two was a poor rip-off of Aliens and number three is more like a poor man's Predator. Neither have anything to do with the original.After the - slightly out-of-character - borderline-comedy, black and white, fifties-style opening, we find that the American military sends the most useless troops it has to an island in order to destroy some allegedly old equipment. Unfortunately for them, they find there's actually a rather nasty abandoned alien there who wants to give them some serious (killer) tongue action.The alien in question is possibly the most unrealistic alien ever created for a movie. It doesn't look too bad, it's just the way it moves that makes it appear totally unreal. They might as well have just used a toy Jabba the Hutt and chased the soldiers around with it. The only thing more unlikeable than the plastic alien that does its best to emulate the Predator with its (bad special effects) 'cloaking device' are the soldiers themselves. They're not only incompetent (they take drugs, get into fights and fire their weapons into the air for fun), but they're also unlikeable - hardly the type you'll shed a tear for when they're wrapped up in cotton wool and licked to death (you'll probably have to actually watch the film to get that). They also can't act and run about screaming from model helicopters when they're not being tongued to death or hearing random cougar noises.If you like classic horror, stick to the first Xtro. If you want proper action, watch Predator.If it bleeds, you can kill it. If it looks like its operated by rods and a man with his hand up its rear, then its probably Xtro 3.

I watched the first Xtro film the first time a while back and it was not anything all that great, but it passed the time and kept me wondering what the heck was going on. It was like if you took the film Alien and threw it in a blender with a bit of E.T. and Poltergeist. Strange, but it was something different. Then I watched the second film, and it made the first seem even better as it was simply Alien as it was just a creature systematically killing the cast as they went through air vents and stuff. Now I have finally watched the final Xtro film and it has less in common with the first film, than did the second! Here, the makers simply did a horrible rip off of Predator with a guy who sounded like Ray Romano as the lead guy and Robert Culp who got his name first on the DVD and had maybe three minutes of screen time.The story, a group of soldiers is assembled so they can head to an island and diffuse bombs. That is what they are told; however, the person in charge has ulterior motives. A strange old man is found, warning them that they are all going to die and after what seems an eternity the alien creature makes its appearance and a really slow mayhem ensues! The soldiers must figure a way off the island before the alien and other forces close in on them and kill them all! Just not a good film to me at all. There was not much gore to speak of in this one, no nudity and the story was slow paced as the running time on this one could have been cut 10 or 15 minutes. There was too much emphasis placed on certain aspects of the story and not enough alien out and killing. The alien uses the same cloaking mechanism as the one from Predator, but it looks like a Grey. The film just did not work in any area as the subtitle was watch the skies, but I was watching the run time and constantly wishing this one were over.

This is a cheap and tatty generic sci-fi military paranoia paste-up job, using clichés minted in a thousand other movies.It does the best it can on a budget of about ninepence, but that isn't very good. The special effects aren't very special (lots of ordnance expended, and the chameleon effect is interesting), and the alien is poorly executed.The cast (with the exception of Robert Culp, adding a few bucks to the pension fund) is composed of total unknowns, and this movie is not going to change that for any of them.And there is incessant use of the F word to no particular effect. It isn't big and it isn't clever, guys.

It puzzles me that people hates this movie so much, it's a fun and enjoyable Alien / Predator rip-off with no intentions of being a masterpiece. Look, if you want to see Predator, go and see Predator and not Xtro III. It's as stupid as renting Battle Beyond The Stars and expecting Star Wars!Anyway, a group of marines is stranded on a remote island together with a mean and nasty 2-foot tall alien whose favourite pastime is dissecting humans. The little sneaky alien has some kind of slime that he traps unknowingly B-actors in and he gets invisible as well.OK, it isn't much of a story but Xtro III has nice effects and is surprisingly gory at times.