The most important even if not the best

Rating: 9/10 (24 July 2006)

While the first in the Alien series doesn't really compare to the second, Aliens, this movie is what sets up the entire thing in the first and if you watched it before seeing Aliens, then the latter would have been even more enjoyable and even better than the best movie ever made it already is. You should of course, be intrigued by the Alien. Besides which, you are better of seeing the Alien-1 directors cut over again, followed by another dose of Aliens rather than Alien-3 and Alien resurrection. Its hard to believe that the audience which was once scared and intimated by the Alien through the first two movies, is now laughing at the very same Alien after cinematic abominations like AVP.