Great show, one minor thing though...

Rating: Null/10 (4 July 2000)

** POSSIBLE SPOILER **... at the end of the film, where Ripley has to blow the place sky high, I couldn't help feeling that I'd seen this all before in the original Alien. Look at the similarities, having to go back in to find someone/thing (i.e. Jones the cat from the original, Newt from this one), blowing the place up in the end, and when everything seems fine, it turns out that the alien (THE alien in the original, the queen in this one) has followed them back to their ship (i.e shuttle in Alien, carrier in Aliens). That's about the only thing I found worth mentioning that was 'not good' (as opposed to bad). Otherwise the film was great, gripping from the beginning, and dovetails nicely with the original film, unlike this and Alien 3, the link between them being so weak it's stupid. I have to say I loved James Horner's score. Great, dramatic stuff. This film didn't, overall, have the same ambience about it as the original did, but the difference is not bad. There. I have made my peace.