Anyone here heard of alien/aliens?

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2002)

Well, what you know. The world has another alien-ripoff sci-fi movie that tries to surprise people with a twist. Yes, this movie is one of the decent ones in its genre, but it still fails to make my spine shiver with horror as did Alien and Aliens, the cult movies of sci-fi horror.

The twist in this movie is the murderer, who can see in the dark and how the rest of the group has to depend on his help to get out of the planet they're stuck in. Not wanting to spoil the plot for anyone, but I got serious Deja-Vu when the group of people were reduced one after another. Ok, the actor's aren't that well known (except Claudia Black perhaps, yummy), yet they do rather decent work on the film. Except when it becomes to playing shock/horror at losing someone dear to one etc. At that point the film loses a lot of its creditability.
Still, if you like sci-fi, then this film might be worth watching, but have all your lights off before starting the film, you will not be too drawn to atmosphere of this movie unless you are in darkness, with only the dim light of the screen to comfort you.