Exciting and realistic science fiction movie

Rating: Null/10 (28 April 1999)

When I saw this movie the first time at the age of 10, I was so impressed and shocked that I couldn't sleep until 3 a.m. This is one of the most exciting movies I know and it is by far the best one of the Alien series. It is even much better than the last film of Cameron´s, Titanic. I ask myself how it is possible to create such a film with an expenditure of only 18 Mio. $.
I´ll try to enumerate the positive aspects of Aliens:
1) The acting is quite good, especially the acting of S. Weaver
2) The special effects of the spaceships and the aliens are good, even by present standards
3) Aliens is, compared with other science fiction movies, quite realistic; the technology is not on a much higher level than today / physical aspects are considered / weapons and military are still important
4) The anatomy and the morphology of the aliens are completely strange and exotic and that's realistic. If there are somewhere extraterrestrial creatures (intelligent or not), their appearance and biological mode of operation would most likely be quite different from that of the living beings on the earth.
5) The music and the soundeffects are quite good
6) The ending of the movie is totally surprising
Evaluation: 9/10