"It Won't Make Any Difference!"...

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2019)

ALIENS is one of the few sequels that actually matches or surpasses the film that spawned it. Where Ridley Scott's ALIEN was more of a suspenseful monster movie, Director, James Cameron wisely chose to make his follow-up into a fast-paced, action film w/ the titular creatures causing even more mayhem. The story picks up several years after the incidents in the original, w/ a rescued Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) going along, as a team of space marines returns to the planet where the first troubles began. It seems that something has caused a communication breakdown w/ a group of colonists there. Upon their arrival, a nearly non-stop firestorm ensues. Cameron takes what he did in THE TERMINATOR two years earlier, and ups the ante, creating an explosive masterpiece of sci-fi / horror in the process! Ripley transforms from her resourceful character in the first movie, into a warrior, bent on protecting the sole survivor of this latest holocaust. As the title suggests, there are multiple "Xenomorphs" to deal with, as well as a secretive, even more dangerous beast, that must be stopped at all cost. as w/ ALIEN, when this film debuted, there was nothing else like it, making it a seminal movie on its own merit, as well as a huge hit. A classic that still holds up after all these years...