Maly the plot...

Rating: 9/10 (7 April 2006)

The film starts with the crew of a commercial ship wake from deep sleep. They are woken ten months ahead of programmed. The ship's computer (Mother) had seemed to pick up an SOS call. The crew land on the planet from where the call was made and after a bumpy landing they are stared there. As some of the crew work to get the ship up and running again a small group go out to see where the SOS came from. They come to a strange looking space ship and go inside. They find a fossilised Alien with his' chest of the outside. One of the groups goes down to what looks like a nest of eggs. Back at the ship Ripley finds out that the SOS call may be a warning. Then The group that went off to the space ship have come back the group member that found the eggs had a parasitic alien attached to his face and seems to be palsied. They try to cut it off him, but find its blood is acid and cannot be taken off.
Later the alien comes off on its own adored and the group member is fine. They fix the ship and started to head back to the mother ship in orbit round the planet. When at dinner and the crew are having an nice dinner the drew member that had the alien on him gets violently ill and a small alien pops out of his chest then runs away. Crew send his body to space and then try finds ways to kill the alien. After a few horrid deaths it becomes clear that the science officer is a robot of some kind and has orders to keep the alien alive at any cost.
Ripley kills him and the two last remaining crew members come up with a plan to kill the alien. The two get to work as Ripley goes to start to ships self destructed system. When she heads to an emergency ship she finds her cat and started to bring him to it. The other two are get killed by the alien and Ripley tries to stop the self destructed system but false and then has to make a speedy race back to the emergency ship and takes her cat. She just makes it to a safe way away from the ship as it blows up. She put her cat into deep sleep then starts to change for to put her self into sleep. The alien somehow mangles to get into the emergency ship. Ripley hides and changes into a space suite and then blows the alien out the air lock. It stills clings to the ship, but it sucked up into the engine blast.
I thought it was a good film and had some great parts in it. Like the scene where the alien pops out of the guy's chest. A classic film for it's day and has a good sic fie feel to it, unlike the Aliens and Alien3. Where in Aliens it's action and in Alien3 it's a horror.