Movie #28: Alien

Movie #: 28
Movie Title: Alien
Year Released: 1979

Director: Ridley Scott
Notable Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto

Short Description: After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as distress call, their landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform. Continuing their journey back to Earth with the attacked crew having recovered and the critter deceased, they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #39
Ranker.com: #49
Lifed.com: #45
Empire.com: #33
FilmCrave.com: #34
FlickChart.com: #22



Date Watched: 11/10/2016

Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)

Rationale: Alien was fine overall, but I expected I'd be into it more than I was. Once the alien itself started to wreak havoc I was hooked. Up until that point, though, it felt too similar to other scf-fi/horror movies where a group of people blatantly disobey or ignore rules that, little to their knowledge, will put themselves in grave danger with inevitable deaths. Also, I'm not particularly a fan of Sigourney Weaver, but she does an adequate job as main character Ripley.