By far the best one of the sequels and – I know
it’s a blasphemy – in some ways even better than original one! It has that old
and gritty and warned-out feeling that first one captured so well and we all
love (fuck that high techno CGI Cameron’s action shit!). It gets even
better with claustrophobic shots of shafts and corridors chases with creature’s
POV camera works.
It does start a bit slowly but we are
rewarded for our waiting with the best scene of the movie. It’s at the funeral
when Dillon is giving “ashes to ashes” speech and simultaneously alien rips apart that poor dog. It’s simply brilliant and it reminded me somehow about ending
of the first Godfather.
Then it turns into action/slasher and most
of the killings are great and gory enough, especially for high budget Hollywood
blockbuster. First massacre is my favorite following by sneaky dispatching of Pete
Postlethwaite. He didn’t see it coming at all!
Action is masterfully intertwined with
Ripley’s “motherhood” story and this gives movie really cool tone. One of the
convicts has a remark about her not being married and having children and –
voila – next thing you know she carries an embryo. I wonder if pro-life
fanatics would change their attitude after seeing this masterpiece. Or maybe
not – she does end up in the lake of fire, doesn’t she? In any case - that "close up" of Ripley and alien is gotta be one of the coolest shots in the film history!
So good to see it after a while, cannot
believe it’s been 20 years already. It hasn’t aged a bit, it’s still flawless!
And such a shame about David Fincher - after
this one he made one more masterpiece in Se7en and then sadly
disappeared from my radar.
9/10
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