Aliens (1986)

Not as scary as the original Alien, but it is more action-packed and is a fun movie.  When we last left Ripley, she was still onboard her spacecraft after having jettisoned the evil alien monster.  Now, 57 years later, she discovered by her company while still in cryogenic sleep and brought back for questioning. She tells them all about what happened with the alien, people dying, and the android and no one believes her. She claims that they had been interrogating her for three hours, but how come no one mentioned that the planet where alien was found had been colonized til the last minute? Wouldn't that be the first fact you should mention - the fact that people had been living there awhile and never seen an alien? Wouldn't that make sense?

Of course, shortly after Ripley tries to warn everyone about the aliens on the planet, guess what? The first attack of a facehugger occurs. How convenient that this happened right when the one person who has handled them before wakes up. And if people had been living there, why had no one explored this ship before?

Visually, it was nice. There was a heavy use of blue lighting to give it a more otherworldly feel.  The modified weapon was okay too. Flamethrowers are usually effective against giant aliens.

Also, once again the true villain is the greed of money. The character Burke is only there for money and risks  everyone else's life for it. When Ripley goes into the lab where Newt is sleeping to comfort her, she glances up and notices one of the facehuggers is missing from the jar in the other room. She immediately gets up and goes for her gun, but it's in the other room! When I first saw this, I thought, you idiot there are aliens everywhere. You need to keep your gun with you at all times. But when it was discovered that Burke had set the alien free, it makes sense that he would have also move her gun out of the room as well. So not only did he put her and the child's lives in danger, he removed their only means of defense. That man is truly despicable.

This movie gets an 8/10 for being action-packed, not too drawn out, with an okay story.