"The supporting actors here are inventions like the PulseGun or the SmartGun, which red-bandannaed Private Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein) stalks about with regally, like a flamenco dancer. (âAliensâ is going to be big on the survivalist circuit. Itâs about this point that you remember Cameron also co-wrote âRambo: First Blood Part II.â). The film may be as empty as it is fast and noisy, but Cameron still has a droll touch with his villains--watch who steps off âAliensâ â elevator in pursuit of Weaver--and with amazing mechanical inventions: Here itâs a forklift suit with monstrous lobster claws. (The filmâs R rating is for its language and gruesome effects; itâs definitely not for impressionable children in spite of its 9-year-old heroine.)"
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Shelia Benson, âMOVIE REVIEW : âALIENSâ BLASTS OFF WITH WEAVER IN COMMANDâ, Los Angeles Times, (July 18, 1986)
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