Director: Fede Alvarez
Actors: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror
Rating: MA
‘Alien: Romulus’ is the 9th ‘Alien’ film,
and is technically the sequel to the original 1979 ‘Alien’, chronologically
falling between it and ‘Aliens’. Thankfully, it takes lots of inspiration from
both of those films and while not quite as great as them, comes closes in many
respects. The film is called “Romulus”, as that’s the name of a space station
our 6 main characters find abandoned, due to whatever experiments they were
doing.
A lot of this film working is due to it focusing only on 6 characters
and giving them each a bit of time to become sympathetic to – Rain (Spaeny),
android Andy (Jonsson), Tyler (Renaux), Kay (Merced), Bjorn (Fearn) and Navarro
(Wu). How many will survive? Great silent/‘Jurassic Park’-like start, then
quick intro to these 6 characters, then they’re on the “Romulus” and the
face-huggers are skittering everywhere – great stuff!
There’s some good tense moments, a few jump scares, a familiar
face, a truly-disturbing xenomorph at the end and a strong score. I was very
impressed with the visuals/CGI of the planet and it’s Saturn-like rings and how
they were used to bring urgency to the final act. It’s probably 15min too long
overall, with some head-making decisions towards the end. But is has a strong
cast with Rain not being too much like Ripley, and the xenomorph not being too
powerful, but nor easy-to-kill – still always great to see emerging from the
shadows! Does well to fit into the overall ‘Alien’ storyline and is exciting
enough as a standalone sci-fi film.
Overall: Very strong Alien story
Gav's Rating: 3.5 stars
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