Finally in my DVD collection with tons of cute extras

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2007)

There are not so many movies, which I'm craving to have in my DVD collection, but "Alien" is definitely one of them. It is grim and tough, it is dark and surreal, it is violent and freaky, it is thought-provoking and mesmerizing. You can try to make fun of it, but you cannot hurt its reputation of a solid sci-fi, because there are so few movies of this calibre. Like in case with "Terminator" I do not like the following "part": "Aliens" and "Terminator 2" turned the initial concepts into "shoot-'em-all" parody.
Atmosphere of loneliness and constant danger is created and being kept up all through the movie. One wrong actor could have ruined it all but the director made the right choice. Every actor is in its place and performs very well.
I agree with those IMDb reviewers who mention that "Aliens" destroyed the original concept. Damn right. "Alien", as I see it, was never about a war of marines vs. hordes of ETs. "Alien" was about our fears and loneliness, about such moments in our life when no living man, even with a big plasma rifle or whatever, can help you, and you have to fight for yourself.
I'm very grateful to our DVD market that it lets us buy "Alien" movies separately. I would never buy the "Alien quadrology", because the quality of all the parts is extremely different.
10 out of 10 - triumph of sci-fi genre. Thank you for attention.