What more can one say...it's a classic!

Rating: 8/10 (8 December 1999)

Alien is one of the great science fiction films of the seventies, a successful marriage of the increasingly dry genre started by 2001: A Space Odyssey with the gore of the contemporary splatter flick. It's a great pity that the series was then entrusted to that he-man James Cameron who turned it into another testosterone filled gun show (albeit one with terrific action sequences.) Credit Dan O'Bannon's screenplay and an outstanding cast.