Starship troopers (rental)

Rating: 10/10 (8 November 2017)

This is a amazing sequel that compensates the lack of stunning visual from Alien by a exceptionally strong tension. In addition, the story fits perfectly and the characters of Ripley is deeply analyzed!
So if it seems strange that the colony was put into Alien hands as quickly and deeply after just one infection, the marines initial deployment is a moment of anthology: the empty and silent base, the sonar, the video link nearly defines what would be later a genre in video game: 1st person shooter! Later when the aliens comes to them, the suspense of their hidden arrival is wonderful and as Cameron says in the documentary, he had only 6 aliens to play with!
Another success of Cameron is the mix of high contrasts: they are the best soldiers with the best tools and they lost the fight against the aliens; in such a violent movie, the maternal moments between Ripley and Newt shine like diamonds, all the more than this young actress is totally believable as a terrorized surviving victim The only thing that hurts me is that it's also the movie that invented the concept of bad-ass heroin, in other words, woman fighting with guns like a man! The question there is not about gender equality but the easy acting out to kill: today it's the norm but the idea that the solution to any conflict is to kill the opponent and in addition with the hands of a woman is disturbing OK Aliens are only space bugs and not really enemies but this was the 1st step into the idea of mass killing...
At last, the movie appears so good and excellent now that we have discovered the poor quality of all the following sequels!