A mindless shoot' em up.

Rating: 1/10 (15 October 2016)

If only ALIENS were a horror movie as Alien and its true sequel Alien³ are.
This mindless shoot 'em up with its TV formatted aspect ratio is clearly the black sheep of the original trilogy.
It is enjoyable, yes - but as an ALIEN film it definitely doesn't cut it. Perhaps they should have given the project to Stallone or Schwarzenegger and waited until they had drawn up a script that would have fitted the criteria set by the first movie.
We have James Cameron to blame for clearly not understanding that classy horror films should not be about macho gun wielding Rambo antics and people admiring and greasing up each others muscles.
Thank goodness Alien³ restored the franchise to its bleak and artistic horror roots.