Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16360 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-12-28
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 4
• Running time: 461 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's worth watching in one go Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, here collected in one nifty box set, if only for the chance to see how different directors handle essentially the same idea. The results are decidedly mixed. Ridley Scott's Alien is the most traditional of the bunch, essentially a haunted-house picture set on a space freighter, where a monster is picking off crew members one by one. James Cameron's Aliens is the all-out adrenaline bath, a pulse-pounding action thriller from start to finish. It plays a little like a Western in outer space, where the settlers are waiting for a cavalry that never comes--and the Indians are acid-veined aliens. And David Fincher's Alien 3 is the rock-video version, in which substance and storytelling are sacrificed to editing and imagery, as the aliens attempt to take over a space penal colony. Alien Resurrection sports amusing set-design, a signature of its director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen), but feels too derivative of Jurassic Park in both its genetic engineering plotting and too-fluid computer-generated effects. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

Synopsis
Featuring the four complete 'Alien' films.

Customer Reviews

4 classic movies.
Alien = The original and arguably the best. The most atmospheric and genuinely scary film of the lot. Aliens = I cannot believe some people have the nerve to say anything bad about this. This film is simply full on action from the man behind The Terminator and True Lies. Uncomparable to Alien as they are completely different. The first builds tension and is more of a horror film where as this is just a massive bullet fest. Sheer class. Alien 3 = Admittedly this does not match up to the previous installments but look what you are comparing it to. In it's own right this is a great film. It relies more on tension and suspense and in that respect is more like the original than Aliens. David Fincher does a fantastic job with a good script. A worthy addition to the series. Alien Resurrection = The final part of the alien saga rounds it off nicely with a return to the more action orientated format of Aliens. It ends the series on a high note.

Alien saga highlights directors
1. Ridley Scott 2. James Cameron 3. David Fincher 4. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Basically some of the best directors (except Cameron) of the last 25 years. No other series can boast such credentials.

4 of the best films of all time in one box.....BRILLIANT
when i first saw alien, i wasn't sure that i would like it, but i was wrong. the suspense in the first film is some of the best i have ever experienced, and for a film from '79, the special fx are superb. anyone that has not seen these films has not experienced true quality movies. miss them at your own loss, and remember 'in space no one can hear you scream'.