A great space action adventure!

Rating: 8/10 (28 April 2013)

Review of the Director's cut:
Aliens it was the perfect follow up to Alien (1979), because it used the same elements of the previous story (the xenomorphs, Ripley, the dark corridors) without looking like the previous one at all. The introduction of the colonial space marines contribute to make this movie, a great space action film. Fortunately the way they are portrayed does not make them look silly (differently from Starship Troopers for example), and you get the feeling you get to know the few members of Sulaco's crew.
The director's cut version adds a lot to the movies: - It shows you the life in LV-426 before all of them got infected, and therefore when they show the colony completely abandoned after the arrival of the marines, the impact is even bigger. - It shows you the moment when they tell Ripley that her daughter just passed away because she has been in stasis for 57 years!
Unfortunately in my opinion the last 30 minutes of the movie were just not interesting enough (it kind of dragged a bit). Starting by the moment when Ripley decided to go to the basement to kill the queen. I understand that they had to show the queen, they could have fit her in some other moment of the movie. The last half hour is just a bunch of explosions and cliché phrases.
I still love Aliens though. Probably not as much as the 1st one.
Score (8)