Species III

2004 "Beauty is only skin deep"
4.2| 1h51m| R| en| More Info
Released: 26 November 2004 Released
Producted By: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country: United States of America
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After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But Sara is also savage and leaves a trail of deaths in her wake. This carnage makes chemistry student Dean question whether to help her race or not.

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elliott78212 What you have is a good sequel starts where part ll left off very good make up fx interesting story. The director tries to engage you make you care about the characters, here is where the actors fail. I can suspend belief for nearly any movie but Robin Dunne just isn't convincing the federal agent just recites his lines. Most of all some tighter editing to help pick up the pace of the film would have really helped. With all that said, still it earns a 6 out of 10 its not garbage or trash or Super cheesy, many good elements the director even displays some style and technique movies like this usually aren't very good but I would say watch it!
Scarecrow-88 Female, birthed from Henstridge's alien and the alien DNA infected astronaut from the previous film, is close to the most perfect hybrid whose eggs might lend an answer to how to cease the dying half-breed alien species. The half-alien/half-human species, created when the astronaut impregnated human women, have flaws in their DNA and succumb to illnesses and sickness due to their low immunity. Dr. Abbot(Robert Knepper)kidnaps "Sara"(Sunny Mabrey), posing as a soldier in the military, before a half-breed could get her. Abbot is a professor who sees the Nobel Prize in the future if he finds the answer to the perfect half-breed species, devoid of the current flaws plaguing them now. He seeks assistance from a gifted student, Dean(Robin Dunne), to help him in collecting data and perfecting their experiments on Sara. Meanwhile, Sara, who has grown to a young, luscious, sexual creature from an infant in a manner of days, seeks a mate, finding none that are worthy of her impregnation due to their sickness. Abbot and Dean always remain in danger as the lethal half-breeds continue their pursuit of Sara and a cure.As with most second sequels and beyond, the premise of the half-breed female sexpot aliens is wearing thin despite rampant nudity by stunningly gorgeous naked bodies. While some of the f/x are effective(..such as Henstridge's giving birth to infant Sara, subsequently strangled by a half-breed alien boy's tongue in the truck with her;a man is split in half by an alien Sara's tongue;some cool disease-riddled aliens in human form showing nasty flesh wounds developing), the budget has certainly dwindled somewhat when compared to the other films...such as when Sara murders the college dean which isn't the least bit convincing. Also, the story is smaller scale, removed from the governmental/national/global aspects which enriched the apocalyptic terror, instead taking place almost completely within a university town where college kids reside...sure, in dialogue that global terror exists, but in this film, the setting is confined in one significant area. Leads Dunne and Knepper are okay enough, and Mabrey is a babe. Yet, compared to Henstridge, who is almost irreplaceable as the incredibly sexy alien from the previous two installments, Mabrey is also smaller scale. As a sequel to an okay franchise, I have seen worse. And, we at least get to see the alien creature designs again, even if there few and far between.
rocky_lifter69 What happens when you take most of the sex and a good portion of nudity out of a Species movie and throw in a low budget and boring script? You get Species 3, which is appallingly boring when compared to the other movies. Number one had a great atmosphere and cast, number two had good special effects (and little else worth noting) and number three has.... um, hold on, I'll think of something.If you have read the plot synopsis for this movie, you have been badly misled. It claims that Sara is desperately seeking a mate while a military team closes in on her. Neither is true. The movie starts shortly after number 2, with Eve's body being transported somewhere so they can "use her dying DNA to make something else." Why they can't just make another one is beyond me but anyway. The truck driving her stops as an alien tongue bursts through the back wall of the truck and kills the passenger. The driver goes to investigate only to catch Eve waking up and giving birth in an unusual way. She doesn't even have time to see the baby before the little Patrick child in the back with her snaps her neck with his alien tongue. (Anyone else notice the cat that was in there at the end of 2 had vanished?) Anyway, the driver grabs the newborn creature and scurries away as troops arrive to see what happened to the truck. This driver somehow turns out to be a college professor (yes, I know, makes no sense) named Dr. Abbot. He starts to raise the young girl, whom he names Sara, while he teaches class at a local college. Shortly after, he is visited by a large, sickly looking person that turns out to be the halfbreed that was in the back of the truck. It is looking for Sara, as he and the rest of his kind are dying off due to weakened immune systems (Funny that these big bad aliens can't handle things like pollen). This halfbreed dies in his office, spilling it's guts all over. Abbot then enlists a brilliant student, Dean, to help him with his planned experiments involving the alien DNA. At the same time, Sara has gone into her cocoon and hatches out as a shapely adult. She is confronted by the university's dean while in her full glory, but rejects him as a mate (We later find out that her "superior DNA" doesn't match up with humans, so they will not produce offspring with her). He doesn't like this and she ends up killing him. Abbot and Dean return to find the empty cocoon and the dead dean and realize what happened. They get rid of the body and Abbot explains that he plans to use Sara's ovum (without her knowledge) and the DNA from the half breeds to create a perfect species (Why he wants to do this is never made clear). As Sara roams the college town, she senses another halfbreed that is seeking her out and almost mates with him before realizing that he is sick and dying. The next day, Abbot and Dean prepare to start experimenting on Sara when she is attacked by the halfbreed, who is desperate to mate before he dies. They manage to save Sara and kill him but not before he impales Abbot. After this, Dean returns to his dorm, where his roommate has an email from a very hot woman who is interested in cellular biology. The roommate responds to her request using information about the aliens he found in Dean's things. The woman turns out to be another halfbreed, Amelia. She arrives shortly after and seduces the roommate before taking him hostage. She and Sara then force him to make the new species so they will have mates. Dean and a government agent crash the party and the roommate escapes with the harvested alien ovum. They are chased down to a large nuclear facility that Dean worked at. Amelia and Sara chase Dean to the reactor as it warms up. He drops the eggs in there and Sara turn on Amelia, sacrificing herself to save Dean, who escapes. Three weeks later, Dean's roommate goes back to Abbot's house only to find Sara and a young boy. He races to the lab where Dean tells him that he was able to grab Sara at the last moment and had created the boy so she wouldn't be alone. Later, after the boy had matured, he and Sara leave, going into the woods to escape detection. Dean then assures his roommate that the guy is sterile and they will not have any little alien children. The final shot shows the number 1903 on a train bridge.The entire movie is just so drab. There isn't a ton of the violence, the aliens look to cheesy and they toned the sex and nudity WAY down. Sunny Mabrey is cold and emotionless as Sara but that is OK for the part. The rest of the characters are stereotypical and boring to the point that none merit any mention.Basically, see it if you're a die-hard for the series or really curious. Otherwise, pass on it.
BA_Harrison Despite being mortally wounded, Eve—the human/alien hybrid from Species II—gives birth to a daughter, Sara, who is abducted by Dr. Abbot (Robert Knepper), a scientist whose ultimate aim is to win the Nobel prize. The girl quickly reaches adulthood (the grown up Sara is played by blonde hottie Sunny Mabrey, who wastes no opportunity to show off her stunning bod) and soon she is seeking a mate.Abbot, along with promising student Dean (Robin Dunne), conducts various experiments on the young woman, but with other 'half-breeds' seeking Sara out in order to have sex with her, things eventually go awry.Although Species III has essentially the same ingredients as its predecessors—a nonsensical storyline, hot nekkid chicks, and lots of gore—this time around the result is less satisfying; this is because they forgot one important factor: to make the film fun! The latest instalment of the series takes itself far too seriously, and suffers badly as a result.Natasha Henstridge makes a brief appearance at the beginning of this episode, but then its up to a cast of relative unknowns to make this poorly scripted and badly directed mess of a film work; and, guess what.... they fail. I don't blame them, however; with a plot as muddled and poorly conceived as this one, failure was inevitable. Even a cast of Oscar winners couldn't save this one from being a total stinker.I mean, have you ever heard of a college that is able to fund the building of a revolutionary nuclear fission plant? Me neither, but that doesn't stop the writers of this cack from throwing this dubious element into the mix. And what are the chances of your average college student understanding the complexities of combining alien and human DNA? Pretty slim, I would've thought, but to the students at this college, such things are child's play.As if to compensate for the film's rather far fetched and tedious storyline, director Brad Turner sees fit to pack in lots of explicit gore (which is always welcome) and another beauty with nice ta-tas—a second foxy alien, played by brunette scorcher Amelia Cooke (who does the decent thing and gets her kit off within minutes).But even with the blood, guts and bodacious babes, Species III is something of a damp squib.