Awesome

Rating: 9/10 (10 November 2002)

23 years on (at the time or writing), this film still looks and feels magnificent. The "total environment" approach to the design of sets and artifacts gives the film a level of realism rarely bettered. Nothing looks cheap in this film, the performances are great, the dialogue believable.....everything feels real. Compare this to certain big-budget movies of the last ten years and be astonished at how much better "Alien" looks when you might have expected it to look creaky by comparison.