Director: James Cameron
Release Date: 1986
Running Time: 2hrs 17 minutes
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 15
Synopsis:
Ellen Ripley is rescued by a deep salvage team after being in hypersleep for 57 years. The moon that the Nostromo visited has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, colonial marines have impressive firepower, but will that be enough?
Set fifty-seven years after the events of the first film. Ripley finds herself back in search of a colony that has gone missing on the same planet her crew visited in 2122. Officer Ripley is questioned over the events that took place on her mission. On their journey they stumble across a little girl, Newt, her parents and family dead. The crew take it upon themselves to care for her. They have no idea what awaits them. The film unfortunately takes a while to get going. Although this builds suspense, there is a lot of communication between characters that honestly doesn't need to be there. Bill Paxton's character, Private Hudson is particularly irritating. You get the impression that the crew are treating their mission like a game. This unfortunately pulls the storyline away from being suspenseful.
Director James Cameron clearly had a different approach to how he wanted this movie to look Ridley Scott was all about suspense and fear. James Cameron focuses too much on the dialogue between characters. It takes far too long for the action to get going for the film to be even a tiny bit enjoyable. Sigourney Weaver delivers the strongest performance as Officer Ripley. Are the rest of the crew supposed to be ignorant to the entire situation? The dialogue between characters in "Alien" was very genuine and natural. You could really sympathise with them. In my humble opinion, the first film didn't need a sequel, "Alien" is one of the best science-fiction movies out there. Unfortunately the "Alien" franchise is starting to look like it's never going to end.
Bill Paxton quite possibly delivers one of his worse performances as Private Hudson. Paxton and Beihn both performed in "Terminator" also written and directed by James Cameron. At least Biehn's performance is more sincere. Perhaps the character of Hudson is supposed to be irritating? It's a shame it takes so long for the action to get going, because once it does, it's very entertaining. Unfortunately it takes almost two hours for it to reach that point. Sigourney Weaver outweighs the rest of the cast with her sensational performance. Ripley is bad ass in this movie. Carrie Henn who plays Newt is fantastic, she gives a very heartfelt and genuine performance. Anyone else feel like the character of Venom was based on the alien in this movie? Overall a good movie, but unfortunately nowhere near as good as the first one.
3/5
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