Sir Ridley Scott's classic sci-fi horror

Rating: 10/10 (28 July 2007)

This is one of the best sci-fi horror movies I've seen (Predator, The Thing are also two of the best I've seen), the atmosphere of the ship is just brilliant and scary when the Alien is creeping about. The air duct scene is very tense and creepy. Sir Ridley Scott directing is great and gives out some really fantastic suspense scenes. The acting is great, this is the first time we Sigourney Weaver as one of her most famous roles: Ellen Ripley. The plot of the film sees a cargo ship returning to Earth, the crew members wake up from their hyper-sleep and can't wait to go home. While flying through space they pick up a distress signal from a near by planet so they decide to land, the ship gets damaged and they're stuck on the planet, some of the crew decide to check the planet out for anything and soon come across a huge spaceship in the distance, they enter and soon discover a huge skeleton of an Alien life form in the ship with a hole in it's chest, they search deeper into the ship and Kane falls down the hole, in the hole he discovers a room full of Pods, he inspects one of them and it opens then a spider like creature called a Facehugger jumps out and attachés to his face, melting through his helmet. They return to the ship with Kane but Ripley can't allow Kane into the ship because of Quarantine but Ash lets them in. In the medical room they study the Facehugger and learn that it's keeping Kane alive like a host, they try to get it off but it's grip tightens. They then go and try to cuts it's legs off but it's blood spill and melts through the floor since it's blood is acid. After a while they see that the Facehugger as came off Kane, the Facehugger itself is dead. Kane wakes up and they go to have dinner but during it Kane starts to act strange and soon falls on the table then suddenly something bursts through his chest. The Chestbuster then runs off and after a while they go looking for it. Ripley's cat Jones escapes and so one of them has to go look for him because he will be picked up on the tracker as well as the Alien. Searching for Jones suddenly the Alien shows up not small but now fully grown and kills him, they discover that the Alien is moving around through the air ducts so the Captain decides to search the air ducts for the Alien but he is attacked by it. Ripley checks the ships computer and discovers that the company wanted the Alien life form on the chip for their Bio weapons programme and the crew are expendable. Ripley sees Ash next to her and soon he attacks her, the others hurry in and help Ripley and they discover they Ash is a Droid sent by the company to retrieve the Alien, after destroying him they decide that the only way to stop the Alien is to destroy the ship and escaping from the small ship. Getting the air supplies while Ripley goes to the ship they are attacked and killed by the Alien leaving Ripley on her own with it, taking the Flamethrower she goes to self-destruct the ship and on her way out she encounters the Alien and runs. Trying to stop the self-destruct sequence she fails and must escape from the ship. Leaving with her cat Jones she quickly leaves the ship before it self-destructs. She goes to go into her cryogenics tube but suddenly sees that the Alien is in the ship with her, she carefully puts on a spacesuit and takes the harpoon gun then straps herself to the chair and forces the Alien to come out with hot steam, then she presses the button and opens the airlocks then she shoots the Alien and it hangs on the outside then she burns it with the engines finally stopping the Alien then shes goes into hyper-sleep with her cat Jones while her ship flies through space.
Alien is a great sci-fi horror classic that should be seen. 10/10