|  Avg. User Rating: 312 ratings R,2hrs 18min Distributor:20th Century Fox Film Corporat
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| Big-budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist subtext from writer/director James Cameron turned what should have been a by-the-numbers sci-fi sequel into both a blockbuster and a seven-time Oscar nominee. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the last surviving crew member of a corporate spaceship destroyed after an attack by a vicious, virtually unbeatable alien life form. Adrift in space for half a century, Ripley grapples with depression until she's informed by her company's representative, Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) that the planet where her crew discovered the alien has since been settled by colonists. Contact with the colony has suddenly been lost, and a detachment of colonial marines is being sent to investigate. Invited along as an advisor, Ripley predicts disaster, and sure enough, the aliens have infested the colony, leaving a sole survivor, the young girl Newt (Carrie Henn). With the soldiers picked off one by one, a final all-female showdown brews between the alien queen and Ripley, who's become a surrogate mother to Newt. Several future stars made early career appearances in Aliens (1986), including Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, and Reiser. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide | |
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| "In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind... Full Synopsis Big-budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist... Full Synopsis Crash landing on a barren penal-colony planet with an unwelcomed visitor in tow,... Full Synopsis Two centuries after Ellen Ripley's death, doctors aboard the space station... Full Synopsis Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, Alien vs. Predator follows billionaire Charles... Full Synopsis | |
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