Alien (15)

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Time Out says

In the wake of the huge commercial success of Alien, almost all attention has perversely focused on the provenance of the script (was it a rip-off of It, the Terror from Beyond Space? Of Van Vogt's fiction? Was former John Carpenter collaborator Dan O'Bannon sold out by producers Walter Hill and David Giler's rewrites?). But the limited strengths of its staple sci-fi horrors - crew of commercial spacecraft menaced by stowaway monster - always derived from either the offhand organic/ Freudian resonances of its design or the purely (brilliantly) manipulative editing and pacing of its above-average shock quota. Intimations of a big-budget Dark Star fade early, and notions of Weaver as a Hawksian woman rarely develop beyond her resourceful reaction to jeopardy. At least Scott has no time to dawdle over redundant futuristic effects in the fashion that scuttles his later Blade Runner.

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Release details

Rated:

15

Duration:

116 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Ridley Scott

Cast:

Yaphet Kotto, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Veronica Cartwright, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm

Music:

Jerry Goldsmith

Production Designer:

Michael Seymour

Editor:

Terry Rawlings

Cinematography:

Derek Vanlint

Screenwriter:

Dan O'Bannon

Producer:

Walter Hill, David Giler, Gordon Carroll

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Rated as: 5/5 (6 ratings)

  • "Scuttes" Blade runer!? It's one of the finest sci fi films ever made!

    Joe Sun Jan 20
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  • I love this movie. It is timeless and likely will resonate in the future when its predictions turn out to be dead on. It's like a beautiful blend between Kubrik's 2001 and Ghostbusters. I love sigourney weaver, what a woman!

    matt Sat Sep 22 2012
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  • A great film that I so enjoyed seeing two or three times. The sequals on the other hand were dreadful.

    Roy Llowarch Sun Feb 28 2010
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  • An amazingly good film. The script borrows heavily from the classic 1975 DoctorWho story 'The Ark in Space'. None of the sequals has lived up to the first Alien film. Aliens for example has none of the clostrophobic horror.

    Richard Freeman Thu Feb 18 2010
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • Unbelievably good. This film does an excellent job of vacillating between the sheer boredom & monotony of blue-collar work [this time in space] & the adrenaline poisoning of abject terror & dread. The absence of information is stunningly powerful & lends force to the H.R. Giger monster designs when she finally shows herself well into the film. The soundtrack to this film is amazing, though seldom mentioned.

    ffelix Tue Jul 8 2008
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • Some scenes have not aged with much dignity, but all in all it is as frightening as it was when it was released.

    Magmabulle Sun Jun 8 2008
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • Alien put simply is a masterpiece thriller.

    Cole Sat Jan 26 2008
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  • Aliens is a good film, although can be very slow in places. There are a couple of fantastic scenes which have made the film stand out and probably made it as famous as it is. I much prefer the sequel Aliens though.

    Tina Wed Aug 15 2007
    Rated as: 3/5
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