Well done but rather a silly movie

Rating: 5/10 (15 July 2005)

I borrowed Alien Quadrilogy box set from a friend of mine and tried to watch the Alien and I couldn't. Yes, Ridley Scott is a master. He does his work very well and he, it seems, even had studied Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' before. But the screenplay... One of the silliest I ever seen. Every person acts like imbecile that has the only aim - to die. Aliens are very spectacular and illogical (in my opinion). They grow from embryo to huge monster having nothing to it, deposit eggs that have more flesh than grown monster, and pour rivers of acid and slime. Ah, and they kill :) The genre of the movie (according to IMDb) is Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller. I'd say it's horror/thriller under sci-fi sauce. Some kind of sci-fi Jaws. The only Alien movie I liked is Alien: Resurrection. It's really stylish and fun. And Sigourney Weaver is a killer woman there :)