wow. Best film ever 11/10

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 2002)

this is undoutubly the best action/horror/sci-fi flick of the 1980's. Everything from the casting to the storyline was impecebile and James Cameron should be truly proud. Sigourney Weaver again pulls out all the stops and gives a truly heroic and confincing portrayal of Ellen Ripley. Unlike the first one, which was a pure horror film, Aliens has it all from Gun-Blazing battle sequences, to spooky and chilling parts of suspense. Outstanding performances have to go to Weaver, Bill paxton as the 'Bad-ass' private Hudson who consistently moans and complains throughout, Lance Henriksen as the synthetic Bishop, Jeanette Goldstien as fiery tom-boy character Vasquez and Paul Reiser as company scumbag Carter Burke. Cameron has an ability to bring his characters to life in his films. This again is shown in Aliens as you can almost sense what the characters are feeling and thinking at a particular part during the action. Michael Beihn also puts in a convincing performance as Corpral Hicks, who is forced to take command when Seargent Apone (Al Matthews)is taken away. Aliens is one of many films where there is a few survivors of a massacre and it ends up with each one of them is picked off one by one, but what Cameron has managed to achieve, which many mind numbing hollywood blockbusters have failed to pull off miserably, is allow the characters to build up some sort of bond and chemistry between them( especially privates Hudson and Vasquez as they are constantly nagging at each other). I have seen Alien 3 and wheras it wasn't a complete disaster it didn't achieve the same affect as Aliens, and the less said about Alien Resurrection the better!