Wow!

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2005)

This is the benchmark for Science Fiction films to aspire to attain. The film's Director, Ridley Scott, already a "known", was catapulted into the forefront with this one, along with the entire cast. The acting in this film is superb by the entire cast, but most especially Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit and Ian Holm. The fact that the entire cast consists of only 9 or 10 characters must have made it easy to work together. The special effects work is absolutely first-rate also. The action comes thick and fast after a sort of slow but necessary start. Once it begins, hold onto your hat! Alien is, far and away, the best film of it's genre that I've seen in years.