HORROR! Not action

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2006)

I saw the first alien before any alien movies, now that I've seen the all I must say that Alien is horror and not action. It has many scene's where it seems to be very scary such as the many scene where someone is alone, you know that the killer alien is after them and all of a sudden you hear, to me that is very scary. I believe that Alien is the first movie where a woman is the hero which after 'alien' has happened many more times, which in a makes the movie more scary because women naturally ain't as strong as men.
'Alien' is about spaceship that is heading back to earth when all of a sudden the ship gets an S.O.S. signal from another planet, the ship then heads off to the planet to see what's going on. On the planet one of the crew members has an alien life form jump on his head that breathes for him to help him survive, eventually it jumps off his head and shrivels up and dies Everything seems fine but it turns that the alien life form planted a killer alien in the mans stomach which escapes and runs wild on the spaceship.
Director Ridley Scott has performed a great miracle making this movie, he has turned your usual nineteen fifties usual Sci-Fi movie in to a movie that if it was done up a bit is the same sort of film that we watch today. I didn't become obsessed with this film but I do respect the obvious aspect that when it was made it would have been fantastic.
'Alien' is also good because it has a boring start that goes nowhere that gets you used to the very different characters who slowly morph in to characters all very similar because they are all very afraid in the exact same way. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) plays a character that is just like all the other characters and doesn't play the main character until the end when she takes complete control and you feel very confident with her.
In conclusion 'Alien is a very entertaining movie with a few twists and turns but keeps the very real suspense. The landscape is very futuristic that makes you feel very exited because you don't know what can happen next. Ridley Scott has made a masterpiece and for it's time would have been a brilliant masterpiece that only a very creative mind would be able to come up with.
In space no one can hear you scream.