Kingdom of Heaven Ultimate Edition Blu-ray Review, Plus Alien 35th Anniversary Edition — collider.com

20th Century Fox has released two of Ridley Scott’s best films in new special editions.  Those films are Alien and Kingdom of Heaven.  One of these editions offers supplements and commentaries never before put to Blu-ray, while the other is a repackaged version of previous editions, where the only new element are some collectables.  My review of both follows after the jump.  Alien is the one that’s basically repackaged, as it’s simply the first disc from the Alien Anthology box set, with all of the same content of previous Blu-ray releases.  The film stars Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, who – along with Tom Skerrit, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton and a cat – are on a space ship and are woken up from hypersleep to explore a crashed alien ship on a nearby planet.  They investigate, only for an alien life form to attach itself to the face of one of the crew.  The beast falls off his face and the crew member eventually wakes up, but that crew member then gives birth to an alien, which grows quickly and tries to wipe out the entire crew.

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