Horror fans I will very fully admit that i've never seen the first Alien movie with that being said however I have seen some of the sequels and the first Alien Vs Predator film. However for todays review I thought that i'd review a film that is not only the first Alien film that I ever saw but what is also the very first mature rated film that I ever saw and so join me as I review he film that many consider to be better then the original with the film in question being called simply just "Aliens" enjoy.
The plot of this film is fifty seven years after the first film Ellen Ripley finds herself awoken from hypersleep and so with a bunch of marines Ellen Ripley goes back to LV-426 in hopes of finding and killing of all of aliens that killed her crew fifty seven years prior. In terms of what I personally thought about he plot of this film in all honesty the plot of this film is so freaking good and what makes the plot of this film good is that it does what a good sequel should do and that's advance the characters , the story and the world that the first film set up and it also helps that the plot of this film is really freaking engaging and as well as being fairly / very well written.
Starring in this film is Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley , Michael Biehn as Corporal Hicks aka Dwayne Hicks and Paul Reiser as Carter J. Burke. Also starring in this film is Lance Henriksen as Bishop , Carrie Henn as Rebecca "Newt" Jorden , Bill Paxton as Private First Class William L. Hudson , William Hope as Lieutenant Gorman , Jenette Goldstein as Private Vazquez , Al Matthews as Sergeant Apone , Mark Rolston as Private Drake , Ricco Ross as Private Frost , Colette Hiller as Corporal Ferro , Daniel Kash as Private Spunkmeyer , Cynthia Scott as Corporal Dietrich , Tip Tipping as Private Crowe and Trevor Steedman as Private Wierzbowski.
Now then as for what I thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this film in all honesty the acting that's featured / presented to us in this film is really freaking good. Which really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone since the acting in James Cameron films has always been really good and it really does help that the script for this film gives the actors alot to work with and so the actors are fully allowed to deliver the best performance that they possibly can do.
Now this is honestly something that I didn't know but creating the creatures for this film is effects legend Stan Winston and I have to say that the creatures and as well as the overall effects that are featured / presented to us in this very film hold up really freaking well. In all honesty the creature effects look so good that it looks like that these creatures were created last year and not in 1985 which was when this film started filming however I will admit some space effects haven't really aged that well but having a bad effects that are in a film that is filled to the brim with good to possibly great effects is still a pretty good thing in my opinion anyways / at least.
Rather shockingly it took Hollywood seven years to make a sequel to Alien which is shocking because Alien made one hundred and three million American dollars against a budget of eleven million American dollars and so it truly is shocking that it took twentieth century fox seven to make a sequel to hit a film. I'm honestly surprised that it took them this long to make a sequel to Alien since they very easily could have made the sequel two years after the release of Alien if they really wanted but the fact that they waited as long as they did to make this film to me shows that they didn't really want a sequel to Alien in the first place since if they did want an Alien sequel then they could have made it alot sooner then what they did do.
Now then boys and girls i've ben pretty freaking positive about this film so far but there was one thing that I didn't like about this film and that is the fact that this film takes a while to fully get going. Which does make sense considering the running time of this film but at the same time given that alot of the early scenes in this film are just flat out boring I really do feel that some of those scenes didn't really need to be this film and that thus that would have meant that the plot would / could even have gotten started alot quicker then what it did do.
I honestly really did like the mother daughter relationship that was being developed between Ellen Ripley and Newt. Since to me at least Newt represents Ellen Ripley's last shred if humanity and so if Newt does die and then so does whatever humanity Ripley had left and and the same could also be said Newt and so it makes sense that the two would cling to each other because if the other dies then they loose whatever humanity that they have left it's just a shame that Newt really isn't written all that all and it's a shame that Newt really doesn't have that much to do in this film nor does Newt do that much in this film.
Now then boys and girls this film has a total running time of two hours and thirty four minuets and fifty seven seconds and so lets round that up to two hours and thirty five minuets and I honestly feel that this film while it was very entertaining it didn't need to be as long as it is. Since you very easily could have had this film come in at well under two hours but at the same time with this extra thirty five minuets we the audience are given more of a chance to connect with all of the marines and newer characters and thus we care for them for so in this case it's a case to pick your poison since you can have a shorter film but risk not caring for must of the main cast of characters or you can have a longer film and care for all of the new cast of characters the choice is really up to you / yours.
Now then while there are indeed horror elements in his film this film instead focuses more on being an action film and so that means that I do have to talk about the action that's featured / presented to us in the actual film itself and if i'm being really freaking honest here boys and girls the action that's featured / presented to us in this film is the best of part of this film. Since the action is just so freaking cool and part of what makes the action that's featured / presented to us in this very film so freaking cool is the fact that James Cameron at this point in his career was mostly known for directing action films and thus he knows how to make a cool looking action sequence which he really does do in this particular film but that's just what I think anyways and thats just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.
Overall this was such a good film and I cannot believe that it's taken me nearly thirty years to watch this film again since yes I first saw this film when I was very young lad growing up in the 1990's. Now then since i've talked about all of the good things that are in this very film and well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and so that means that this film gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
As for where I got all of the images that I used in this review from well then boys and girls I personally got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official Alien fandom wiki page and from Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being the official Alien fandom wiki page just simply due to the fact that pretty much all of the images that are featured / presented to us on the official Alien fandom wiki page are all fairly high quality and as well as being fairly high definition and as always horror fans we end this review as we always do which is with Elvira who is our one and true and only goddess wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams indeed.
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