Schwarzenegger's career high, underated classic.

Rating: 9/10 (3 March 2001)

Forget the Terminator or anything else, everyone knows deep-down that this is Arnie's number one movie. Beautiful location, meathead cast, macho dialogue all with a rather ingenious alien foe. This may be taking the Alien concept and I am a big fan of Alien and Aliens, but this is still a totally different movie and I think just a little more enjoyable than those two. As in the Thing, there is no messing about with romance here, just razor-sharp, boy's own, action plotting that we have come to expect from John McTiernan's explosive direction. The story is simple, yet endlessly brilliant and eminantly watchable. The film slacks once or twice and there is the awful Arnie one-liners which really stop this being a classic, but this movie macthes fear, action, comedy and most of all big, brass balls.