Just as good as Alien, just in a different environment.

Rating: 9/10 (28 April 2009)

I was psyched when me and my parents agreed to watch Aliens on a Saturday evening. I was only 14 at the time, maybe a little too young for a film like this. Then again, I watched Alien as a 12-year old, so... yeah.
I didn't get all of the details on my first viewing, but it certainly gave me scares and thrills! Like the first movie, the acting, music and story is very good.
It's this film that made me a fan of Sigourney Weaver. Her character truly evolves in this movie. Starting out as a traumatized victim of the creature from the first film and ending up as a hard-core, caring mother. No one would mess with her children, that's for sure!
Like I mentioned in the title, the movie is just as good as Alien, but it takes place in a different environment. Not on a single spaceship in the middle of nowhere, but rather on a planet, in a complex inhabited by colonists. Well, it USED to be inhabited...
You see more of the creatures in this film, compared to Alien. But that's not a bad thing. It works well and they didn't over-use it, like Alien Resurrection.
I recommend getting the extended (special) version since it adds more to the story and it has a few extra scenes which add to the film as a whole. If you can't get a hold of it, watching the normal movie is still a very enjoyable experience.
"Mommy said there were no monsters, but there are..."