It's one of those rare movies that can get under your skin while at the same moment blowing you out of your socks. It is the ultimate science fiction action movie/war epic, and even more rare it has a woman as the hero, toting the biggest guns this side of an Arnie movie. It’s a movie that used mothering instincts to replace the same old testosterone driven male stereotype hero we are sick of. It’s a movie by James Cameron. This is Aliens!!!
The sequel to Ridley Scott’s masterpiece from 1979 picks up right where its predecessor left off. Ripley after surviving the Nostromo Massacre is found adrift in deep space, she is rescued by a salvage team and brought back to earth. That’s the good news, the bad news is she was out there, in stasis for 57 years. Bummer. After rejoining the population of earth Ripley finds that things are not going to get any better for her. The all powerful corporation known simply as "the company" does not buy her story of an acid drooling, xenomorph being responsible for the destruction of the Nostromo and she subsequently has her flight license revoked. Why don’t they believe that there ...