Produced by: 20th Century Fox
MPAA Rating: R (violence, language, gore)
One thing I especially like about this series is the music. In every single one of the Alien movies, the music is excellent. The best composition comes from Alien 3, which is also the worst movie of the series. Go figure. Anyway, the composition is rich and vibrant, like a flowing orchestra. The acting is defiantely important to the series, and these characters (especially in Aliens) are the most human. (With the exception of androids such as Bishop [Aliens] and Ash [Alien], which are anything but human. They bleed white.)
One way you will remember Alien is through the scene where Kane comes in with a facehugger latched on his face. It plants an embryo inside of his body, which then becomes a parasite--"chestburster" inside of his stomach--which soon bursts out of his chest during a meal. It's the most surprising shock I've ever seen in any movie, because it's so unexpected. One minute you watch him eat a pleasant meal, talking a normal conversation. In seconds, the monster pops out of his chest and leaves, blood spraying everywhere. The alien soon grows to twice the size of a human, and kills every single member of the small crew except for Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), who finishes the alien off in a stunning climax. This film is my second favorite of the Alien movies.
Aliens takes place 57 years after the incident in Alien. She wakes up from one hell of a long cryogenic sleep to find that people have colonized the planet where they accidentally picked up an unwanted crew member in the last film. Soon, they lose contact with everyone on the desolate planet, and the Colonial Marines are sent to investigate. To everyone's surprise (except for Ripley's, of course), everyone is dead in the colonies. The movie has the most action of the series, and introduces the Queen alien, one of the most well known creatures of any movie. This isn't just the best Alien movie, it's the best movie of all time. See it, buy it on DVD (the Director's Cut, which features scenes deleted before the film's original release, is awesome!) and watch it over and over again. Please, you owe it to yourself to own this excellent.
We won't even talk about Alien 3.
And now, onto Alien Resurrection. It's the last film released (so far) for the series, and it has some heart-pounding action. It has one of the best casts of characters in any movie I've seen. It has a really memorable scene where aliens are swimming after the characters underwater, even though it's exaggerated when characters can hold their breath for about five minutes. The movie gets a bit weird here and there, and the most ridiculous part is when Ripley gets it on with an alien. (That's right, you heard me. She screws an alien.) Then, a riduculous hybrid of a human-alien is formed, and sucked out of a penny-sized hole in the glass of a spaceship window, with spaghetti, meatballs, etc. flying out of its body. That scene should have been deleted. That's the only reason this wonderful film got knocked down on its score, because that scene was really stupid.
Final Score:
Alien: A+
Aliens: A+
Alien 3: D
Alien Resurrection: A-
