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Aliens (1986)

"This time it's war."
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👍 90%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 89%
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Director
Runtime
2h 17m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
8.0/10 (10,661 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
Metacritic
84

Cast

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley · 74% avg
Carrie Henn as Newt
Michael Biehn as Corporal Hicks · 71% avg
Paul Reiser as Burke · 72% avg
Lance Henriksen as Bishop · 73% avg
Bill Paxton as Private Hudson · 73% avg
William Hope as Lieutenant Gorman · 68% avg
Jenette Goldstein as Private Vasquez · 77% avg

Is Aliens good?

Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 89%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#80 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#5 / 58 · 1986
Rank among its director's films
#5 / 9 · James Cameron

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Aliens is a 1986 American science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron, the sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 Alien. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, who is discovered in hypersleep 57 years after her ordeal on the Nostromo. When contact is lost with the terraforming colony on LV-426 — the same planet where the original alien was found — Ripley reluctantly joins a unit of Colonial Marines to investigate, knowing what horrors await them.

What they find is far worse than a single creature: an entire hive of aliens has overrun the colony, and the Marines' superior firepower proves inadequate against the sheer numbers and tactical intelligence of the xenomorph swarm. James Cameron's genius was in shifting the genre from horror to action while maintaining genuine terror — where Scott's film was a haunted house in space with a single predator, Cameron created a war film against an overwhelming alien force, with the Colonial Marines' bravado giving way to desperate, chaotic survival combat. Sigourney Weaver's performance as Ripley evolved the character from survivor to warrior-mother, her fierce protection of the orphaned girl Newt providing the emotional core that earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress — a remarkable achievement for an action-science fiction film.

The power loader vs. Queen Alien climactic fight remains one of the most satisfying confrontations in cinema history. Aliens earned $183 million worldwide and won two Academy Awards for Visual Effects and Sound Effects Editing.

The film is widely considered one of the rare sequels that equals or surpasses its predecessor by reinventing rather than replicating the original's approach.

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