I want a time machine to get my 116 minutes back and unwatch this.
It starts quite promising actually, but not for long. The moment those eggs are found on that planet/structure it starts to look very naive and predictable.
From a scientific/nature standpoint, this Alien life makes no sense, not even as a fiction. It basically waits endlessly for a host... anything to appear deep in a hole. That 'anything' needs to be powerful and curious enough to severely poke it to be awaken. Once it opens, it magically finds the face behind the astronaut suit, breaking the hard glass, but keeping the man alive in a coma. I guess it's a very common thing for an alien life it did for generations.
Somehow the rest of the crew managed to pull the unconscious man from that deep hole and out of the structure, back to the ship. And it was just a single hatch, other eggs happily remained there for another eternity, nevermind theother two spacemen being busy for hours. Blame it on a bad fertility rate.
And that was while this film still kept any sense.
The rest of the plot gets much worse - one by one all spacemen fall like toy soldiers, chasing the speedy Alien with metal teeth alone, armoured with a cigarette or a torch (!) in a closed tunnel, where, to anyone's surprise - Alien waited! No!
Poor Alien gets some existential crisis as the other guy forgets about it entirely for a lost kitty that magically stayed alive and awake while they were in hibernation during flight. So much for Alien being sophisticated. Kitty for the win.
This won't be the last time kitty enters the plot. It's there when Sigourney abandons the critical mission to search for her again. Forget Alien, shuttle, blowing up the ship or rest of the guys, kitty is more important. At this stage I felt sorry for Alien.
Overall, the film is beyond naive, totally predictable and bases everything on a shock value. As an early sci-fi horror, it has some moments, choreography, good props and closeups, spawning from a body scene. But to be at the 2nd place for best ever Sci-fi movies of all time - like no effing way. I usually find something to hold in the movies. But this one is beyond hope. I had more fun writing this review than watching it.