Best Sci-fi thriller there is

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 1998)

I realy like Alien and I've watched it many times. The film is something special and I rank it amongst the best ever made. There are a lot sci-fi movies being made that can be categorised as cartoonish, or cheapiah. But this movie has style and it is far from cartoonish.
The design of the ship is realistic and the attention is being paid to the ship's rules (quarentine rules and chain of command). The characters are also believable, whining about payment and the way things are going. Further more, Ridley Scott's directing is supurb and he created the movie as if we were there; This could be a real event in times to come, and in the Science fiction genre reality is rare.
The story is rather simple: Monster gets onboard and starts killing. But that isn't a negative thing. As the simple story creates the time to show details of life on a space-craft and makes you believe you are a watching real people in a real situation.
The actors are good and well casted, every scene is right and some of them are quite memorable, like the visit to the Alien ship, Kane's last supper and Mother's countdown.
This movie never gets boring and is a real treat. The sequels are also quite mentionable, especially Aliens, which is less stylish, but with more action.
Martijn Meijers