Cameron's best science fiction masterpiece since Avatar

Rating: 10/10 (17 February 2015)

James Cameron's Aliens (1986) is nonetheless one of the best science fiction movies ever made along with Avatar (2009) , Inception (2010), Gravity (2013), 2001: a Space Odyssey (1968), E.T. (1982), Alien (1979), Minority Report (2002) and so much more, the movie picks up it's story from the last scene where the 1979 movie left off but instead it's 57 years later and Lt. Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver in an Oscar nominated performance) doesn't even know where she is and while being found she knows that the Aliens that she encountered before are about to strike again and everyone thinks she's crazy and then a few minutes later two men come into Ripley's apartment and ask her if she wants to assist a group of Marines on a mission to destroy the Aliens once and for all and things don't come out to be as intended to happen. Director James Cameron was a worthy successor as the second director of the Alien franchise and he proved it to me while I was watching this movie, if I were to choose which one of the two Alien movies to better than the other it would be a difficult decision for me to make because Scott's 1979 film has more suspenseful plot elements and has better storytelling, and this 1986 version is a lot more entertaining, ambitious, and still has great storytelling. The movie also has a great supporting cast to it including Michael Biehn, a young Bill Paxton in a very convincing performance as a soldier who is the most terrified of the aliens out of all his fellow Marines, and so many more. This movie is not only a great film it is also one of the best movies of 1986 period.