Nowhere near as good as the original

Rating: Null/10 (18 September 2005)

James Cameron's militaristic sequel to Alien lacks all of the qualities that made the original so special. This movie is all about gunfights and splattering the sets with alien guts. There are no subplots or interesting characters just a bunch of macho military lug heads with foul mouths and big guns. There is no science as there was in the original. This is just a war movie with aliens.
Sigourney Weaver returns and straps on a big one. Paul Reiser is completely miscast and doesn't transfer from TV to film. Aliens is an overblown and highly overrated film from an overblown and highly overrated director.