To put it in one word: Amazing!

Rating: 10/10 (19 August 2003)

This films is amazing. It is easily one off the best films ever made. It has it all.
This is the sequel to Alien(1979). The planet from the first film, named Lv-436, has been colonised but humans who are there too make the air breathable. But one day a family discovers an alien ship and when they go inside they bring back aliens...
The film starts with Ellen Ripley in her ship, wich has floated away far in to space, being found by another ship. They bring her back to a large space station above earth. But when she wakes up she gets a shock: she has been a sleep for 57 years. In 57 years a lot of things has happend, among that her daughter has died.
Ripley is forced too sit through long meating with 'important' people. They blaim her for the loss of their ship(wich she destroyed in Alien). But then contact is lost with LV-426. She is convinced too go too the planet as an expert, though she will go there with marine soldiers.
As the soldiers and ripley land on the planet, all hell breaks loose...
This film is easily one of the best sci-fiction and action film ever made. The action is very good and very cool.
It is writen and driected by James Cameron, the man who did The Terminator and other films. The script is very good and the characters are very well written. Every single one of them is interesting in their own way.
There is Ripley, wich we know from the first film.
There is Dwayne Hicks, a bad-ass soldier who always stays cool and never panics. This role is played by Michael Biehn, wich plays the part very good.

There is Hudson, a soldier who we in the begining things is a very bad-ass soildier. He talks about how he will kich ass and all, but when he faces the aliens he shows another side. Bill Paxton is AMAZING in this role.
Vasques, a female soldier. She is a really cool character, who also always stays cool. She is played by Janette Goldstein, who is a very good actress and it is a shame that she doesn't got more roles these days.
These are sme of the characters who are very interesting but there are more.
James Cameron does a good job directing this one. This is, in my opinion, the best Alien movie. This one is maybe the best Cameron film(a tie between T2 and this one), it is Amazing. I really recomend this one. 10/10.