Movie #59: Aliens

Movie #: 59
Movie Title: Aliens
Year Released: 1986

Director: James Cameron
Notable Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn, Bill Paxton, William Hope

Short Description: The moon from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough? (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #59
Ranker.com: #87
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: #30
FilmCrave.com: #63
FlickChart.com: #51



Date Watched: 8/21/2016

Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)

Rationale: Alien is one of many movies that ends in a way that a sequel shouldn't be necessary, and though Aliens wasn't a bad sequel, it did seem unnecessary. The turn-off-your-brain action, which was the best part, was satisfactory throughout. My issues are with the similar ending regarding the stole-a-way alien trying one more time to kill everyone as Ripley and crew escape and the fact that Ripley was involved at all. Maybe it's just me, but if a ruthless, seemingly unstoppable alien just killed all of my crew and almost myself, I'm not going back to where that alien is regardless of the reason.