The Alien Is The Baddest Movie Villain Ever!

Rating: 10/10 (20 May 2009)

If only the crew listened to Sigourney Weaver's Ripley and followed quarantine protocol, they may have avoided all this fuss. Ian Holm's science officer Ash was the one who let the away team onboard – what's his problem? The answer is quite an unexpected twist.
The Alien is, unfortunately for the crew, a hungry killing machine whose "blood" is a highly corrosive acid. The Alien's "coming out" is one of the classic movie scenes of all time.
Ridley Scott does a great job directing the crew of the Nostromo which is really a tugboat taking a load of mineral ore from the outer reaches of space back to Earth. The Nostromo looks very much like a set from Kubrick's 2001.
A not so subtle subtext of this film is corporate greed. The crew is very concerned about getting their "share" and what to do to get a full instead of a half-share. Ash's motivation was greed as well.