Review of Alien (1979) by Rox22 — 17 Mar 2013
Overall a very slow paced film. Effect were great for the day and I'm sure when this was new it was the scariest movie in the Sci-fi genre, but I originally only watched this in the late 80s, or early 90s so the same initial effect was lost to me.
However it still adds allot of atmosphere and the Alien itself is truly menacing. Like I said before, my real grip with this movie is that its pacing is almost snail like. Even faster scenes seem to drag on.
To me it feels like they just tried to stretch every scene just to hit some sort of running time target. Allot could have been cut from the movie, and I'm sure most wouldn't even notice, except for the fact that it would only be just under an hour long.
Overall: A very good sci-fi thriller that could have been flushed out with some more character development rather than the ultra slow camera tracking. Very good, but equally flawed.
This review of Alien (1979) was written by Rox22 on 17 Mar 2013.
Alien has generally received very positive reviews.
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