The best ever filmed ever made.

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2003)

The start of the early 80's, could the sensational Alien ever have a sequel it deserves. Well it didn't look good, who the hell was this kid, James Cameron.
Stop worrying what Cameron went onto to do was nothing less than remarkable, Aliens is a science fiction masterpiece for your average John Doe. The film actually eclipses Alien. If Alien was the monster movie set in the spooky house, Aliens is the movie that captures all the emotions of the not so long ago Vietnam War.
The film, is well over 2 hours but it doesn't feel like it, it was well paced out leading to the sprint at the end. It starts with Ripley suffering a nightmare and in the end will see Ripley, Hicks, Newt and Bishop all happily drift off to sleep.
The characters are all well built up except maybe some sterotypical grunts of the marines. We have Ripley who though she survived the events of Alien is pyschologically suffering. Carter Burke a scrupulous business man from Weyland and Yutani. Hicks is the strong silent type marine. Hudson the cocky marine turned into grovelling boy. We care for all these characters which is something that was o so missing from the next two installments of the franchise.
This is also James Cameron's best film, because the film does not rely on set action pieces it relies on the relationships the characters build up. Even the aliens are not shown as monsters but creatures who have built in maternal instincts and the will to survive.
I really really hope that James Cameron gets to write and produce Alien 5, and even better if Ridley Scott directs. But let's face it with the rich characterisation, emotional context etc, provided by the ever brilliant Cameron, I think that even Ed Wood could churn out an Alien movie which would restore the glory of the first two movies.