Highly overrated, but still quite good

Rating: 8/10 (20 March 2004)

I'm sure you have all heard about this film and I'm sure you have all made your decisions on whether or not to see this film. Stories of how Ridley Scott merged the dying Sci-Fi genre with the suspense genre to magnificently new and inventive ways, which is still astounding today. All this is true, but this movie is highly overrated. Much like Bladerunner, Scott's a great and innovative director that finds a really great niche that had been ignored for a few years, dust it off make it huge for half a second and that leads to a revival of said genre and then that genre because is popular again the film becomes old hat. That really is the big problem with Scott. They are great and inspire imitators that muddy the pool of his genius.

9 out of 10