Aliens (1986)
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Reviews Counted: 39 Fresh: 39 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.8/10
Consensus:
While Alien was a marvel of slow-building, atmospheric tension, Aliens packs a much more visceral punch, and features a typically strong performance from Sigourney Weaver.
Runtime: 2 hrs 34 mins
Synopsis: Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor from the original ALIEN, is awakened after 57 years of drifting through space, her stories disbelieved by Company executives who tell her that the alien's planet is now inhabited and colonized. When contact is suddenly lost with the colonists,... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen
Director: James Cameron
Screenwriter: James Cameron
Story: David Giler, Walter Hill, James Cameron
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Composer: James Horner
Screenwriter: James Cameron
Story: David Giler, Walter Hill, James Cameron
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Composer: James Horner
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Weaver is superb -- tough, smart, and the best fighter, male or female, in the movie.
06/17/08
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There is always an interesting tension in Cameron's work between masculine and feminine qualities. When it finally hits the fan here, we're in for the mother of all battles.
08/16/07
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This sequel dares to build slowly, allowing Weaver to develop a multi-dimensional character even as it ups the ante by fetishising the Marines' hi-tech hardware and spawning legions of aliens.
02/09/06
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Features Sigourney Weaver as a female Rambo with nurturing instincts.
08/26/04
The Director’s Cut of the film hauntingly amplifies Ripley’s disconnect from her dead daughter and her relationship to the young Newt.
12/15/03
Aliens never strives to be as accomplished as the original, but it’s wit and turbo-charged battles make it a wild and electric ride, one with the best replay value of the franchise.
09/29/03
What happens when you take a premise, soak it in a combination of adrenaline and kerosene, then light the sucker.
08/18/03
The most instense and satisfying piece of science fiction ever made. James Cameron's masterpiece.
07/14/03
A flaming, flashing, crashing, crackling blow-'em-up show that keeps you popping from your seat despite your better instincts and the basically conventional scare tactics.
05/21/03
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Film review: bunch of characterization!!! but a bunch of shooting
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