Beautiful bughunt

Rating: Null/10 (22 June 1999)

Aliens is a favourite. Despite top-notch sets and soundtrack, the biggest asset is convincing acting. You get the tension between the increasingly freaked-out Marines ("They're gonna get in here and they're gonna kill us!!" "SHUT UP!!"). Then there's the chilling Newt ("These marines are here to protect you." "It won't make any difference"). And of course, there's Ripley. Cameron almost makes it believable that she would willingly confront the aliens again - and that's quite a feat.
And Horner's music does A LOT for this movie. The creepy atmosphere when the marines enter the processing station is great, together with the adrenaline-pumping theme during Ripley's rescue.
Claustrophobia was one of the effects in the original Alien, but it's just as prominent here. "Six feet..five feet.." "They're almost on top of us!" Classic. El riesgo siempre vive.