Turophobia

Rating: 8/10 (29 February 2008)

Although a thrilling first watch, repeated viewings are not kind to James Cameron's follow up to Ridley Scott's masterful Alien.
The film starts well, but when Ripley journeys back to LV-426 she wakes up to find she's in been landed with a bunch of mouthy, incompetent marines and the film takes a downward turn, only to be lifted by the action scenes, all but one of which are handled well by Cameron, but the dialogue. Oh dear...
If only Cameron had left the script details to David Giler and Walter Hill, instead we get a succession of cheesy one-liners and an end ripped straight from the original film.
Enjoyable, to be sure, but avoid the bloated special edition if you suffer from turophobia.