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Created Mar 10, 2008 04:54AM PST • Edited Mar 10, 2008 04:54AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Perfect 5.0

   Ripley returns to the planet from the first one with a squad of Marines and finds it overrun with the monsters from the first movie. She must face her fears on this planet in order to move on from the events in the first movie.

4. Acting

   Perfect 5.0

   This isn’t just one of those paint by numbers sequels. There are loads of fine performances in this movie. Michael Beihn, Bill Paxton, Jeannette Goldstein, Sigourney Weaver, and Lance Henrikson deliver good performances but surprisingly it is new comer Carrie Henn’s performance as Newt that steals this show. You find yourself caring for this small child and feeling sorry for the events that have happened to her.

5. Male Stars Perfect 5.0

   Michael Beihn, Bill Paxton, Lance Henrikson, Paul Reiser

6. Female Stars Perfect 5.0

   Sigourney Weaver, Jeanette Goldstein, Carrie Henn

7. Female Costars Perfect 5.0

8. Male Costars Perfect 5.0

10. Film

    Perfect 5.0

    This movie has atmosphere. Everything looks like it has been used, abused and belongs in it’s environment. There is also a cold feeling to the empty hallways in the complex when the marines first arrive.

11. Direction Perfect 5.0

    The great James Cameron knocks this one out of the park further than he hit The Terminator. The camera work isn’t shakey like in films made now and everyone is given the same amount of screen to share. The focus is on the cast and their surroundings and not just one person.

12. Play Perfect 5.0

    The dialogue in this movie is some of the greatest and most repeated I’ve ever seen. Bill Paxton delivers most of the memorable lines in this film but it is Michael Beihn who delivers a quite convincing role as Lt. Hicks that really makes the words work for him. The best spot for dialogue is probably when they are going over the plans of the area they are in after the first attack. And of course there is Sigourney’s memorable line: “Get away from her you bitch!”

13. Music Perfect 5.0

    Very Haunting. Cameron knows when to add dialogue and when the scene is working well enough that it doesn’t require music at all. The climax of the film has almost no music in it at all. The opening of the film has a theme and a look that gives a very big, empty feeling to it.

14. Visuals Perfect 5.0

    A+++++++++. Like I said before, everything looks real and looks used.

15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 2.8

    This movie has less of an edge than the first one did but successfully replaces the terror with hard action. The men and women in this movie work together and there is no sexual tension at all. There is a slight hint that Hicks and Ripley might end up together but nothing comes out of it.

17. Sex Innocent 1.0

    There is no innuendo or sexual content in this film.

18. Violence Monstrous 5.0

    A movie about space marines with big guns and hoards of vicious monsters that need killing. Lots and lots of violence in this movie.

19. Rudeness Salty 2.3

    These are marines and they do use rather salty dialogue to talk about the colonists in this film but nothing that is shocking.

21. Reality

    Natural 1.0

    Even though it does take place in outerspace I would have to say that this is a very real feeling movie. No one leaps twenty feet into the air or dodges a bullet in this movie. The reactions and actions all feel real in this film.

22. Circumstantial Natural 1.0

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0