Alien

ALIEN

Rating: R

Time: 116 Minutes
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi

Year: 1979

My Rating: 6

This movie is one that I had wanted to see for a long time. It was the classic alien movie that was supposedly a science fiction marvel of its time. And I'm sure that it was. Today, with the technology we have to make incredibly realistic effects, this movie would have been a joke, However, I tried to watch it with an open mind and kept thinking about how incredible it was that they were able to do so well with the movie even though the technology was lacking in 1979.

This movie started out really slow. There was ominous music playing while looking around the ship that the characters were on. It slowly started to pick up, but the movie didn't really get going until about an hour in. And even then, it was a bit of excitement, then a lot of slowness again before the next exciting moment. The movie seemed just really dragged out.

It was very fun to see the actors in this movie as so young. Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, and Ian Holm did a fantastic job. As did the other actors, but I didn't recognize them from anything. It was the acting in this movie that really made it good. The characters were very good at taking the slow moments of the movie and making them mean something for the plot. 

The alien itself was pretty creepy looking. They did a good job making it extremely un-earthly and thus scary. Things that are different from anything humans have seen before, are generally quite scary. And, as most scary movies go, we didn't even see the alien for very long periods of time and never saw its whole body until the very end of the movie. It kept me watching because I wanted to see it. Clever movie maker folk.

The reason this movie is rated R is mostly because it says the 'F' word 5 times. There is also a scene where there is a wall covered in pornography. It is in the background and is blurry, but you can tell what it is. This is not a movie for children for those reasons, and it would be scary for the little ones. 

This was a fun movie to see, but not one that I care to own. I am giving it a 6 out of 10.