Ridley Scott (“Blade Runner”) is often considered to be one of the most talented filmmakers in the business and here is his 1979 sci-fi horror classic “Alien”. A fascinating movie that seems to manage to pay homage to “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” as well as adding its own remarkable items to the sci-fi movie universe.

In “Alien”, the crew of a mining vessel are woken up from suspended animation and receive a transmission from an uncharted world so they investigate for intelligent life. The crew member Kane (John Hurt “The Elephant Man”) finds a horde of eggs on the planet and a thing attaches himself to his face. Later and alien bursts out and starts killing the crew off one by one until only Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver “Ghostbusters”) is left.

The acting in this film isn’t brilliant and it’s not what you’ll remember the movie for but it’s not half bad. I think Sigourney Weaver as good as Ripley. John Hurt was good in this film as Kane in my opinion. Ian Holm (“The Fifth Element”) was good in this film as the science officer Ash. The rest of the crew were decent. The alien (known as ‘Alien’) was very convincing considering when this film was made and it’s great that most of the time you only get glimpses of him.

“Alien” features beautifully made sets, lots of good suspense and enough plot twists to make it a very enjoyable movie. The reason why the suspense is good is because it doesn’t set up a scene so you know where to look and the plot twists help that and also the fact the alien only pops in split-second shots for a lot of the film. I also like how the film waits a long time before you even get to see the alien much like the movie “Jaws” as it takes a long time before you see the shark.