A New Screen Monster Is Born

Rating: 9/10 (12 July 2013)

The Computers are the only thing in this Movie that seems dated. Everything else looks like it was made last Year. The dripping, rustic Spaceships and their interiors have that colorless, washed out look that todays Movie makers pass off as template and style. Then there's the Alien.
A Modern Monster Design that has found its place among the Classics like Frankenstein and Dracula. It is a nightmarish Creature that announces itself without Heart or Soul as we know it. It is primordial and Reptilian.
The Films influence is undeniable as were both Audience and Critical praising. There were other earlier excursions into Sci-Fi and Horror that this remotely resembles, but it is a fresh vision of Suspense with a Modern dose of Violence. Without question though, these things are expertly concocted to make the Movie maintain a sense of the slightly familiar with new twists of Terror.
Modern Viewers have a more cynical approach to the pacing and the shadowy threat that resides in these dank corridors. Mostly because Movies like this have become about as subtle as a suitcase nuke. Patience is a virtue here and this is a reminder that not everything has to be flamboyantly fissionable to be fashionable.