Alien 2 is a 1986 sci-fi and horror film directed by James Cameron. The film tells the story of Alan Ripley, who has hibernated for a long time, 57 years after the previous episode of "Alien", and a well-equipped and well-trained Marine Team return to the planet where aliens are found and fight a large number of alien groups.
After taking the selfie of "Terminator", James Cameron is famous, he wrote and directed "Alien 2", which not only perfectly continued the content of the previous episode, but also detailed and scaled the Alien, and created the image of the Alien Queen. Unlike the first episode due to technical limitations, Cameron used a variety of shooting methods, a variety of materials to produce realistic aliens, and a variety of post-rendering techniques in "Alien 2", and this film that lived up to expectations became a classic in the series, and also laid an indelible cornerstone for Cameron to become a talented director in the future.
In the end, Ripley's great battle with the Alien Queen is also inevitable. At that time, the alien mother queen had trapped Newt, and Ripley appeared operating the machine, which was very imaginative and at the same time very reasonable, because the machine had already appeared in the film, laying a wonderful foreshadowing. The plot of the final alien falling into space continues the style of the ending of the first part, while greatly increasing the imagination and visual effects on its basis, a classic sequel should be like this. Director James Cameron had a soft spot for machines, and later avatars also featured human-controlled machines, which were more cash-smart.
Legend has it that Sigourney Weaver was hesitant at first, refusing to play the role of Ripley again, and several times declining Fox's invitation because she feared that her role would be badly written in the sequel, ruining the good reputation she had already established in the first film. Cameron kept sending her the script, and eventually Sigourney Weaver was impressed by Ripley's delicate portrayal of motherhood in the script and decided to star. "Alien 2" has many classic scenes and plots, the initial rescue team picked her up, told her that 57 years have passed since you went into hibernation until you were found, and showed her the news of her daughter's 66-year-old death, the soft part of Ripley's heart was touched, and the audience can also experience the desolation that time has passed and the past is no longer there.
The horror classic alien from 1979 has clearly become a classic, and James Cameron is a very thoughtful and talented director who took over the work of shooting the sequel, of course, to incorporate his own style. He knows that if he deviates from the style and characteristics of the first part, it will not be a good sequel. The alien legion that swarming up like a tide in the movie provides that tense, oppressive impact, and also provides a platform for the film to create a fierce gunfight and bloody scene.
In short, Alien 2 transforms the Alien series from an Alien novelty into a surprise at the massive nature of alien creatures' attacks on humans, with aliens swarming out of countless ventilation ducts in a huge alien base, like countless grim reapers approaching, easily taking people's lives. Produced in the 1980s when action heroes were rampant, the film became a pure action sci-fi film, the film's visual effects were first-class, and its art design was with the cold mechanical aesthetic pleasure that Cameron's films have always had.
In the "Fifty Greatest Science Fiction Films" selected by the veteran British film magazine Complete Film, this film ranked seventh. In the 50 great sequels to Empire, Alien 2 beat The Godfather 2 to take first place. James Cameron should be well aware of one truth: let the action scenes spontaneously erupt according to the plot to make the best action movies. It is based on this truth that he made Alien 2, a classic sequel that will never be eliminated by the times.