Claustrophobic and Sublime
Rating: 10 of 10 
This time it's David Fincher together with composer Elliot Goldenthal, and just as 'Aliens' was just little above average, this one is almost perfect. Fincher needs just one alien and a bunch of strange guys to scare us to death.
The set is claustrophibic, Ripley extremely hard-edged, and the final scenes are just incredible. Lance Henriksen also gets his performance, and we are getting to see the picture: That it is not the alien we should be afraid of but the Nazi types who are just looking out for the creature to make it a weapon.
David Fincher's direction proves to be inventive and more than appropriate for the concept, and he seems to be getting back to the original, reducing the number of aliens and increasing the psychological tension. But the score is the key to the movie, supplementing the images and intensifying the dark atmosphere.
January 29th, 1998 / March 15th, 2000
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