Nothing you haven't heard before.

Rating: 8/10 (12 September 2000)

I'm afraid I have nothing new to offer for you avid readers of these comments. I just wanted to add my two cents to the veritable goldmine of praise heaped upon this well-deserving classic.
"Alien" is one of the last great classics of the seventies. Even today, it doesn't seem dated. Okay, the special effects for the climactic explosion look a little old...more like time-lapse photographs of moldy bread. But the story holds up. That's about it. Good night.