Though slickly directed by Fede Álvarez, Alien: Romulus is little more than a remix of the beloved sci-fi franchise's most iconic moments.
Alien : Romulus Score Details “What Álvarez has really assembled is a sampler platter of Alien leftovers.” Pros Cons Most of Alien : Romulus, the umpteenth installment in a series forever docked at the intersection of horror and sci-fi, takes place aboard a derelict space station. You know the kind: cavernous, leaky, closer in ambiance to an abandoned factory than a Starfleet hub. You also know what happened to all the missing people.
Our characters this time are desperate youth — a group of twentysomething future laborers caught in the exploitative employ of Weyland-Yutani, the evil corporation that greedily enables the gnashing in every Alien movie. It’s cool to see the series center on working-class heroes again, but these kids don’t look like they stepped out of a mineshaft so much as a Levi’s commercial. Where are the interesting faces and personalities of Veronica Cartwright, Charles S.
When Romulus is really cooking, it achieves a squishy glory. There’s some great splatter in this movie, and a few inspired set pieces. Álvarez does creepy-crawly wonders with the Facehugger, the scurrying, spider-like larval stage of the alien; we’ve never seen as much or this many of them before.
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