Too many fans seem to be blown away

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

In this third installment of the Franchise, where they didn't even have the budget to pay Natasha Hestridge to do anything but mostly appear in flashbacks, we get a less interesting story.So, the first thing they do is start it off where the second movie ended. Except to get the plot moving, they change things a bit. And even though the whole ending of Species II must have only happened a few days ago, none of the team that brought down Eve and her Astronaut boyfriend are available to deal with the problem this time.The third Species Alien, Sara, is trying to mate, but she knows that she can't have a human mate or even one of the half-breeds.Again, the premise is worn, the budget is cheaper, and suspect at some point they ran out of money because it looks like there should have been more scenes put in and others best left on the cutting room floor.

Now, this is a movie where the horror factor becomes friendly. Species was a great start for a wonderful franchise. Species provided a horrific sexual sensation in the crowd. Species II followed the first movie's path but ended badly. But, still, it had the horror factor set in place. The Species Franchise could of been so much better if the 2nd installment was never created. Now, back to the juicy Species III. Species III again turned the franchise friendly and cutsie. No, not literally, but it doesn't provide the viewers with enough gore and sex scenes. The plot had holes the size of basketballs - everything was horrible. BUT... Considering that the franchise was ruined in Species II, Species III is my favorite thus far(I mean sequel, Species will remain the best and far-most perfect). It's a bit better than Species II and follows the crappy plot line(which, most sequels are suppose to) of the Franchise unlike Species IV.This franchise can be made better; after all, everyone wants to see Natasha naked again...so... why-not remake Species II and III? Haha, wouldn't everyone love that.

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.

The first two films were big-budget, but increasingly fun and sexually lurid heatwave (well definitely the second entry) trash. The third outing is on a considerably lesser budget, and a straight-to-DVD production that for most part couldn't recapture the same spirit. Competent, but lacking. However the outgoing sci-fi splashed with action style that was formed in the first two has changed to a more laid-back atmospheric tale that draws closer attention to sci-fi / horror. The idea behind the premise starts off promising enough, to only become too familiar, drawn out and unsatisfying lame. What really brought it down though, was that it seemed to take itself a little bit too seriously with its thickly layered script. Hell this was talky, but wasn't as fun as it could've been. Sure it breaks out towards the latter end, but it's pretty cookie-cutter stuff that's not quite as exciting. Nudity is abundantly flowing, but thrills are little and without much bite, penetration and the rush. The premise is well organised with some neat twists, and gels well with the other films making it easy to follow. It's holds your interest with an old-school type of plot line, but it's to bad that it's mostly lifeless, and anticlimactic despite an attractive lure in Sunny Mabrey. In its favour the special effects that are used do stand up, and the icky make-up FX are finely executed. No CGI overload, but back to basics. The performances are fair. Natasha Henstridge shows up again, in nothing more than a cameo. Robin Dunne goes about things an almost blank manner, and Robert Knepper adds an edgy quality to his part. In the few scenes Amelia Cooke gets as a half-breed, she pretty much smokes up the screen in a generally enjoyable and outrageous performance. Brad Turner's direction is pedestrian, but capably staged. The look of the film shows its limitations. Sound effects come through, though the music score stayed in the background and the cinematography is typically bland.