Aliens the Awakening

The settings in this film are exhilarating and claustrophobic, the characters are funny and likeable and we want them to survive, the creatures are horrifying and vile, and the storyline is tense and exciting.

The aliens do have humanoid form but they don't give a single emotion, they attack in packs and kill all humans.

What I particularly like is how the characters are written. They are not Hollywoodized heroes, in fact, there is no hero. They're just people which makes them even more threatened.

The main villain is Weyland Jr. He appears only in the beginning, but we see that don´t care about the lives they sent to lv426, they only want the aliens.

There´s much of animation used but it think that´s because of the budget, to make a movie like this.

I am just going to add my voice to the chorus of praise for this movie, suely it has some flaws, but all is excusable because it´s a fan film.

The director is well known by making these kind of tributes to old movies, and i always love what he can do on a small budget like this.

From start to finish this is perfectly made entertainment with every frame minutely conceived to be the best. The music is eerily gripping and suspenseful.

The horror and gore quotient hasn't been reduced at all, this is definitely not a film for the kids. But oodles of gripping suspense and guns blazing action violence is the main thing here.

The cast is efficient and all do a good job.

Although it runs for 110m, this is a film that never runs out of steam.

First of all, things are really well explained on this one.

And that is what makes it so fascinating to watch.

They do a lot with animation, and most of the film uses a lot of cgi to add the fights with the aliens in a more realistic way.

Many science fiction films love to draw attention to their futuristic technology but the characters in Aliens o despertar react in a different way, the company already knows about what happend in Aliens, and we see a lot of the story connected to it, and that draw my attention even more, i liked the way both Alien and Aliens exist, within the universe of this fan film, and that´s cool.

This is a film of great tension and subtly, well worth seeing over and over again.

From the intro of the movie, till his last breath in the post credits scene, this is a outstanding fan film mixing two of the best movies of the alien franchise together, and also mixed into live action and animation.

The music is fantastic, the direction is incredible, and as for the Aliens, there are various types of them in the movie, i´m also a fan of the aliens comic books, so it was a surprise for me when i saw something connected with that.

They did a terrific job in investigation for this fan film, no wonder there are still people interested in this franchise, and seeing in the beginning how it all started with the engineers, awesome, awesome movie.

The script certainly is the film's strongest asset for me, as it has 2 stories put together in one, and with a special tribute to Alien and Aliens.

Directing and cinematography rank among the highlights, along with the tremendous makeup and good cgi effects for a low budget like this.

The aesthetics are true to the genre and look better in this film than in any of the previous ones, especially the creatures. They're more fluid in movement, the costumes are very detailed and gorgeously textured, and some of the set-pieces bring the gooey madness to a whole new level. Cinematography has a distinct feel to it.

The soundtrack also works very well, and adds a nightmarishly majestic tone to the film, especially in those moments featuring plenty of organic imagery.

Overall it´s one of the best tribute movies of the Alien universe.