Aliens (1986)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 137m/151m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton
Synopsis:
Ripley awakes 57 years later to find that the egg-laden planet of the first film has been colonised. Before long contact is lost and she is persuaded to act as adviser to a group of marines sent to investigate.
Review:
Different in tone and pace to the first film, more of a slam-bang actioner with Cameron substituting tension/pulse for tension/pretension. Ripley has lost her daughter to old age and acquires a surrogate in the shape of the sole surviving colonist, Newt, introduced like the small girl in Them! Thus, through the course of the film (long by genre standards) she progresses from traumatized near-victim determined to steer clear to committed Alien-exterminator protecting her new family, a character arc which Weaver negotiates with considerable skill. It certainly is a nail-biter and the creature effects and production design are terrific (they finally got the monsters to work, evidently), though the model work is a bit Thunderbirds-y.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 137m/151m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton
Synopsis:
Ripley awakes 57 years later to find that the egg-laden planet of the first film has been colonised. Before long contact is lost and she is persuaded to act as adviser to a group of marines sent to investigate.
Review:
Different in tone and pace to the first film, more of a slam-bang actioner with Cameron substituting tension/pulse for tension/pretension. Ripley has lost her daughter to old age and acquires a surrogate in the shape of the sole surviving colonist, Newt, introduced like the small girl in Them! Thus, through the course of the film (long by genre standards) she progresses from traumatized near-victim determined to steer clear to committed Alien-exterminator protecting her new family, a character arc which Weaver negotiates with considerable skill. It certainly is a nail-biter and the creature effects and production design are terrific (they finally got the monsters to work, evidently), though the model work is a bit Thunderbirds-y.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 137m/151m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton
Synopsis:
Ripley awakes 57 years later to find that the egg-laden planet of the first film has been colonised. Before long contact is lost and she is persuaded to act as adviser to a group of marines sent to investigate.
Review:
Different in tone and pace to the first film, more of a slam-bang actioner with Cameron substituting tension/pulse for tension/pretension. Ripley has lost her daughter to old age and acquires a surrogate in the shape of the sole surviving colonist, Newt, introduced like the small girl in Them! Thus, through the course of the film (long by genre standards) she progresses from traumatized near-victim determined to steer clear to committed Alien-exterminator protecting her new family, a character arc which Weaver negotiates with considerable skill. It certainly is a nail-biter and the creature effects and production design are terrific (they finally got the monsters to work, evidently), though the model work is a bit Thunderbirds-y.