Alien – Movie Review
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Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Dan O’Bannon (Screenplay)
Writer: Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett (Story)
Cast
- Tom Skerritt (Lucky)
- Sigourney Weaver (Ghostbusters)
- Veronica Cartwright (The Birds)
- Harry Dean Stanton (Repo Man)
- John Hurt (V for Vendetta)
- Ian Holm (The Fifth Element)
- Yaphet Kotto (Midngiht Run)
Plot: After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.
Runtime: 1 Hour 57 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Alien starts when a small crew of Ripley (Weaver), Dallas (Skerritt), Kane (Hurt), Lamber (Cartwright), Brett (Stanton), Ash (Holm) and Parker (Kotto) get woken up from their cryosleep. Their super-computer has picked up a signal that needs investigating. However, they stumble across some unknown eggs, which attach their hatchings to Kane.
When they return to the ship, they skip quarantine and unleash an alien creature loose. They must work together to fight back against the creature, who has started picking them off one by one. However, the alien becomes much harder to kill, and the crew learns what they are up against.
Verdict on Alien
Alien is a sci-fi horror following the crew of a spaceship who discover a distress call. They discover an alien creature which gets loose on their ship, leading to them needing to hunt it down, before it hunts them all down.
This movie is an all-time classic, arguably the greatest sci-fi horror ever made. It comes from the less is more school of filmmaking, where most of the movie is dread of knowing what they are facing. This leads to the amazing reveal of the full-blown alien which is one of the most iconic scenes in cinematic history. It uses the ship to give us a contained environment where the crew must prepare for their fight and the jaw-dropping moment when the alien burst through the chest defined the surprises we were going to face.
Final Thoughts – Alien is one of the greatest movies of all time.
