One of the best sequels ever made! 9.0/10

Rating: Null/10 (20 June 2004)

"This Time, It's War!" After the 1979 release of Alien, which became a sci-fi classic and launched the careers of Sigourney Weaver and director Ridley Scott, fans were eagerly awaiting a sequel to this masterpiece. But the years went by without any news of any sequels until 1983, when James Cameron, a then-unknown director who was awaiting Arnold Schwarzenegger to finish filming Conan The Destroyer to begin work on his second picture called The Terminator. Execs at 20th Century Fox hired James Cameron to write the screenplay for the sequel to Alien and gave him the opportunity to direct the sequel if The Terminator became a success. James Cameron picked up where Alien left off and started writing the script that follows Ripley, the only survivor of The Nostromo, who ends up on a space station who immediately questions her about the alien, the destruction of the ship and the fate of the crew. After her story is told, the company revokes her pilot license, leaving Ripley without any work. Being hunted by nightmares of the alien creature, Ripley joins a crew of soldiers to investigate LV-426 after losing contact with the planet. Upon arriving on LV-426, they will soon discover that they are not aloneJames Cameron gave it a very clever titleAliens. The title says it all: they're will be more than one alien. Naturally The Terminator became a worldwide hit and James Cameron was awarded Aliens as his next project and he knew how to make it somehow better than the original. Alien was a very scary, suspenseful, intense horror/sci-fi film and keeping it in that direction would be a mistake, but James Cameron created an action-packed sequel that would blow everyone's mind by putting more aliens, more action, more suspense, more thrills, more scares and more acidSigourney does an even-better work as Ripley in Aliens. She even was nominated for an Academy Awards as Best Actress. Although Alien was more scary and gory than its sequel, Aliens is one of the best sequels ever made and deserves recognition for its better-than-better special effects by Stan Winston, especially the design of the alien queen. I will give Aliens a 9.0/10, which is what I also give to Alien, since they are both equally good and exciting.