Ridley Scott's best film (even better than GLADIATOR)

Rating: 9/10 (20 April 2002)

If you haven't already seen ALIEN, go out and rent it (if you have a dvd player, rent the dvd). If you have already seen ALIEN, go out and see it again (again on dvd). The film doesn't fail to be scary, even if you've seen it fifty times. Spoilers. The crew of the mining ship, Nostromo have picked up what appears to be an S.O.S. on their way back to Earth. When the crew go to investigate the signal on the remote planet LV-426 they find a strange, crashed ship. While investigating the ship, one of the crew members gets a parasite atatched to his face and goes into a coma. When he wakes up, the paracite is gone, but the man dies within a few minutes of waking, because an alien pops out of his chest. It then grows to a gigantic size and begins picking off all the crew members untill only Ripely (Sigorny Weaver) is left. She escapes by blowing the ship up and leaving in a shuttle.
Scott manages to keep the suspence flowing flawlessly through out the film, and not over-doing it. All the acting is superb (even though there are only eight members of the cast).
I give ALIEN 9.5/10