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y - r y, August 1, 1986
Aliens: Space-age 'Rambo' fizzles

platoon of very loud and very expen-
By Kurt Serbus dable Marines, who proceed to blow-
away everything on the planet with
A LL DIRECTOR James Cameron requisite Audie Murphy gung-hoism.
had to do was reign in his pen- In Alien, character revelations kept
chant for big guns and big body coun- pace with plot twists; in Aliens, the
ts (he directed The Terminator and only thing that gets revealed about
co-wrote Rambo) and he might truly the characters is that they've all got
have been the right man to film the balls. Big ones.
sequel to Ridley Scott's classy, The aliens themselves get a bum
classic thriller, Alien. He's got a deal, too. The original crew of the
definite flare for action sequences, Nostromo battled a hopelessly in-
and he even keeps a bit of the tension destructable creature which came up
and siege motif of the original. In this with a new defense everytime they
foul era of Rambo, however, the thought of a way to defeat it. In
commercial success of a~ picture Aliens, these things just throw them-
seems to be in direct proportion to the selves at the protagonists and get of-
amount of ammunition and ex- fed by the dozens. They become no
plosives used during the filming, and more formidable or fearful than, say,
it's with this mentality that Aliens hit the Vietnamese soldiers that got offed
the screens-big, brawling, - and by the dozens in Rambo, and that is
boring as hell. Cameron's ultimate failing-not that
Most of the suspense of the prequel he didn't create a worthy sequel to
derived from it's extreme Alien, but that in trying to take the
realism-thanks to some well-drawn story in a totally new direction, he
characters and some well-studied overplays his hand so blatantly that
character actors; the people on the he comes up with a movie devoid of
screen were real, making iden- fear. Devoid of decent characters,
tification natural and effective. In decent plotting, and decent suspense,
part two, Sigorney Weaver storms sure-but ultimately, devoid of even a
back to the aliens' planet with some few, good scares, and without that,
stock comic-book characters and a there's really no reason in the world
to see Aliens

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