Have a picture of Alien (18)?, please send it to us.
| Value for Money | 9.3/10  |
|---|---|
| Overall rating | 9.5/10 |
Director Ridley ScottStarring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt
Features:
Full review by
Speaker Dime
on 1st Dec 2006
User Rating : 10
Respect :
0
Yet another Science Fiction Classic, Alien is the story of a group sent to work on a distant system where they come across a dormant species to devastating effect. One of these aliens emerges from an egg and latches itself onto the face of the nearest human. The victim is brought back to their ship and investigated medically. The life-form attached to the human host has a cold perfection about it with vice grip tail and legs to lock onto the head and constrict the neck, with concentrated acid for blood any attempt to remove the alien would be fatal. This provides the alien with an incubation period in which the first stages of its growth can be performed inside the chest cavity of the host. Eventually the alien seemingly dies and falls from the face of the victim, and the human seemingly recovers until the infant alien erupts from the chest to begin terrorising the shipmates, picking them off one by one. Sigourney Weaver as the protagonist Ripley is fantastic, playing this role to perfection. As all the thriller suspense is played out, she tries to halt the alien's progress and you are gripped to your seat. This is one of Ridley Scott's best ever films, it has become a cult sci-fi classic and sparked the making of a saga of sequels including the equally good second part, James Cameron's Aliens.
Speaker Dime's review and ratings | 232 words
Review by
higaara
on 26th Aug 2004
User Rating : 9
Respect :
0
Alien is one of the few good horror movies out there. Amazing acting with great directing can put any movie on the spot. And it does with Alien. It's extremely scary, but by using clever, un-conventional methods. You never get a really good look at the alien and the dark and claustrophobic hallways make this a must-have for horror enthusiasts.
higaara's full review | 60 words
Review by
Stephanie Barnes
on 24th Jun 2004
User Rating : 10
Respect :
0
Alien - "In space, no-one can here you scream".
One of the greatest taglines in movie history suits the film perfectly. The first film to combine horror and science fiction, Alien has been forever imitated, but never matched and is best known for launching the career of Sigourney Weaver as flight officer Ripley.
It also launched the career of Ridley Scott, one of the great visionary directors of our time. He perfectly uses the tension tricks Steven Speilberg used in Jaws by keeping the cr ...
Stephanie Barnes's full review | 234 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
turk.
on 27th May 2003
User Rating : 9
Respect :
+1
As viewers of channel 4 in england are aware, they have decided to show alien again. i was looking for something decent to watch, and having heard good things of this film, i decided to judge it myself.
i was in for a shockingly good surprise.....
as alot of you know by now, an 8-strong crew recieve a distress call from a previously uncharted planet,and land there to investigate.
one of the crew is put into intensive after an unidentifiable creature attatches itself to his face.then it di ...
turk.'s full review | 241 words | 1 comment added.
Would you like to see a review that's not being listed?
