The instant Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) steps into the power loader, Aliens stops being a survival story and becomes something else entirely. The room goes quiet except for the hum of machinery. Then ...
The moment is the film’s final battle—human vs. alien. The titular villain, the queen alien, is pursuing Rebecca “Newt” Jordan (Carrie Henn), an orphan girl whom Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has ...