The Alien 3 Assembly Cut is finally on HBO Max — is it worth watching?

On April 6, NASA’s Artemis II spacecraft broke records by traveling further than any humans ever have before, clearing an estimated 252,756 miles from Earth during its historic lunar flyby. As this real-life space drama played out, HBO Max was expanding its collection of fictional space drama, adding the previously hard-to-find extended “Assembly Cut” of the much-maligned 1992 movie Aliens 3.