Aliens
is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and
starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen,
and Bill Paxton. A sequel to the 1979 film Alien, Aliens is set
fifty-seven years after the first film and is regarded by many film
critics as a benchmark for the action and science fiction genres. In
Aliens, Weaver's character Ellen Ripley returns to the planetoid LV-426
where she first encountered the hostile Alien. This time she is
accompanied by a unit of Colonial Marines.
Ellen Ripley, the only survivor of the Nostromo, is rescued and revived
after drifting for 57 years in hypersleep. Interviewed before a panel
of company executives, Ripley's testimony regarding the Alien is met
with extreme skepticism, as no physical evidence of the creature
survived the destruction of the Nostromo. Ripley is informed that
LV-426, the 'planetoid' where the Nostromo crew first encountered Alien
eggs is now home to a terraforming colony, and loses her space-flight
license as a result of her "questionable judgement" in destroying the
Nostromo.
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