Best film ever

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2003)

(Beware some mild plot spoilers) I think that Aliens is a huge improvement on Alien. Better in many ways although it did lose a lot of tension and horror but more than made up for this in nearly every other way. Maybe I will be a bit biased considering that I think Aliens is the greatest movie ever but don't think I'm a pubescent teenager who loves films where mindless violence occurs eg Starship Troopers (which by the way is also amazingly good fun). I think Aliens is overall superb. It may take roughly 70 minutes for any real action to take place but you're hooked throughout and it doesn't seem slow at all. The movie has some brilliant set pieces including the facehuggers in the medi-lab scene and the end battle. These may not be as infamous as the chestburster scene from Alien but they are still tremendous and in many ways they excel it. I think Alien is the definitive sci-fi film with it's brilliant imagination and freshness which brung about a new era for films about different species. Pure genius.