best Alien franchise film by miles

Rating: 10/10 (21 April 2006)

Aliens has got to be one of the best films ever made. The non stop action and plot is fantastic as are the actors.Hudson rules! Aliens begins where Alien left off. Ripley is in cryogenic sleep on the escape pod from the destroyed Nostromo.She is found by a deep space salvage crew and learns she has been asleep for 57 years.After fruitlessly explaining her actions,alien and so on from the first film to 'the company' they inform her that LV426 has since been colonised and the colonists haven't complained of any 'hostile organisms'. Then of course they lose contact with the colony and Ripley joins a group of hard a** U.S marines to go find out whats happened.From then on the film goes into ultra a** whooping mode with aliens "coming out of the god-damned walls" left,right and centre. The cast in Aliens is absolutely perfect.Sigourney Weaver is as hard as ever as Ripley which actually got her nominated for an Academy Award. Michael Biehn is the cool and collective Corporal Hicks,while the other hard a** female,Vasquez,is awesome with her gun that is probably taller than her! Paul Reiser is great as the slime ball company man Burke and Lance Henriksen is perfect for the role of the android Bishop. But for me hands down the best character is by far Hudson played fantastically by the so underrated Bill Paxton.How Paxton didn't win an Academy Award for best supporting actor is beyond belief for me.Hudson is as he says "the ultimate bad a**" when in fact he is probably the most scared out of the remaining survivors.Hudson is given the best lines in the film and it pays off as his comedy relief/hard a**/scared character are spot on.Some of his brilliant lines include "game over man,game over!","there's something moving in here and it ain't us" and "how do i get out of this chicken s**t outfit?" and many more.If this role had gone to anyone else but Paxton i don't think that the film would have that extra something if you catch my drift. Aliens IS the best film of the Alien franchise hands down and probably one of the best sequels ever made.It was fast,furious and funny.One of the best action films ever made and why wold,t it be?With James Cameron (terminator 1 and 2) at the helm it was bound to be. I strongly urge that you watch this film even if your not that keen, just watch it for Hudson's sake,the bloke will have you in stitches. RATING-10/10