Cameron´s greatest moment

Rating: 9/10 (26 September 2001)

This is truly James Cameron´s greatest moment, especially in his longer "director´s cut" version. Probably the most beautiful action film of all time and with Sigourney as the queen of sci-fi hardnecks. The whole serie (at least the first 3 parts) contains more underlying themes and psychological comments than any other action opus and reaches its peak right here, so good that you even fully accept the little girl running around. All the horrifying waiting in the Alien serie spreads through this part like a decieving calmness, a mood that Cameron repeated 3 years later in The Abyss (director´s cut of course)another great movie but at the same time the complete opposit to Aliens in an idealogical sense. A major credit must also go to the creator of history´s most stunning alien race, the strange artist Giger. Jurrasic Park is a Disney film compared to this. You really want there to be creatures looking like this out there in space but you surely don´t want them to act this way! A plus also for seeing Paul "Mad about you" Reiser being slayed and deserving it. Hard and beautiful.