Aliens Review

This could count as the highest point in the Alien series, there would be no way any other sequel and prequel can top this. It's now time for Ripley to face her nightmare upfront, with Flame throwers, harsh language, bad driving, explosions and more airlock action!

So we start 57 years later (!) where Ripley was found by a salvage crew and is on trial for what happened on the Nostromo and learns that LV-426 is now populated by colonists who have met an unfortunate end with just one survivor. This all goes pretty fast and the film gets to the point without any feeling of lag which is pretty good, it helps people catch up with what's happened and what they are prepared for, Sigourney Weaver is excellent as Ripley as she knows what horror lies on LV-426 and yet no-one believes her and she plays it very strongly and gives out a good non-cliché performance, I don't think I want to have an argument with her put simply.

We them move on to the ship called the Sulaco where we are introduced to the motley crew of marines and an android called Bishop (Brilliantly played by Lance Henriksen) who unlike Ash from the previous film, does not go "Faulty", through the course of the film you do begin to trust Bishop as this is the only android who actually obeys the laws of robotics unlike Ash and Dave (To an extent). The marines do feel very well written and preformed by the likes of Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton who have worked with James Cameron before on the Terminator. It all goes to pot when they are on LV-426 when they realise the Xenomorph threat is much worse than they expected and they find a lone survivor, a girl called Newt who Ripley sort of adopts as a surrogate daughter as they share a bond as Ripley lost her child and Newt lost her family so both of them found something they lost in each other during the course of the film.

With this being a sequel, they had to make the Alien threat bigger and they did with the Queen Alien which answered the question of where the eggs come from (Unless you have seen the directors cut of Alien then the sequels are irrelevant) and the film goes bigger scale for the ending making a more expensive version of the previous ending which works well but does provide a question, can these Aliens survive the vacuum of space? We never actually see the Queen Alien dead, just screaming in space and the one in Alien was still clinging on until it got a bit burnt, it is one of the uncommon cases where a sequel does justice to the original thanks to James Cameron.

Film:            9/10