Intense action

Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2007)

Ripley (Sigorney Weaver) has been floating in space for decades. By a stroke of luck a salvage vessel locates her and she's revived into a changed world. The destruction of Nostromo haunts her career as she's demoted as a lowly dock worker, but then she hears, that the planet her crew previous team located the deadly beast has been colonized for terraforming. Soon after this she learns, that the communications are off, so she must go to a rescue mission with some gun-ho marines.
After some pretty boring character introduction scenes the action gears hit in and the latter half of the story is edge seating action with very little resemblance on the gripping horror of the first story.
The special effects are great and the aliens have been multiplying in the numbers, though it seems, that this time they aren't half as mean and lean killing machines than the sole monster was in the original film. Out of the new aliens the queen is very nicely designed and executed little monster, though the portrayal of aliens as an ant community kind of group feels a bit cheap shot.
All in all, Aliens delivers in action what it lacks from the story and characters. Ripley is tougher and more clearly a hero than she was in the first film and the rest of the crew is more in the part of clichéd statistics to be killed off in some part of a film. James Cameron again shows, that he knows how to direct.