Aliens...

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2006)

When we last saw Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) at the end of the 1979 classic "Alien", she was just putting herself into hyper-sleep after dispatching the creature out of the airlock of her lifeboat. This film picks up the story 57 years later when she is picked up by a salvage freighter, and she awakens to discover that she can't get rid of the nightmares that haunt her every night.
After being blacklisted by "The Company", she finds herself struggling to get through the days as a power-lift operator, until she is asked to assist a squad of marines to do a search and rescue at new colony outpost on the very planet where all the trouble started - LV426. Hoping it will put a stop to the nightmares, Ripley reluctantly agrees.
Packing enough fire power to level a mountain, the tough marines go in - and soon find themselves overwhelmed by the alien menace....
This is one of the most thrilling science fiction films ever made, and writer/director Cameron has created a sequel that is self-contained and, in my opinion, far superior to the original. This was the first big-budget picture he made after 1984's "The Terminator", and Cameron explodes out here with a style and pace that is all his own.
With great characters, innovative effects and some very memorable action sequences - this movie moves you along like a freight-train - and doesn't let you off till the very end.
"How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!"