In its franchise’s typical fashion, Alien: Romulus puts its heroine, Rain , through the wringer for much of its 119-minute runtime.
After using one of the Romulus Space Station’s pulse rifles and its anti-gravity surges to survive endless attacks from both Xenomorphs and Facehuggers, it looks for a moment like Rain may have finally reached a well-deserved happy ending.
The calm before the storm Sure enough, that’s exactly what happens because, unbeknownst to Rain, a desperate Kay chose to inject herself with the Weyland-Yutani Corporation’s supposedly life-saving, Xenomorph-based compound to try to save her and her baby’s lives during Alien: Romulus‘ nerve-shredding third act. Rain discovers this when Kay’s vitals suddenly enter critical condition in her cryo pod.
Rain subsequently puts a wounded, badly drained Andy to sleep in a cryo chamber of his own. Alien: Romulus then ends with Rain, like both Ripley and Elizabeth Shaw before her, recording an audio log identifying herself as the last survivor of her ship’s human voyage and expressing both hope and uncertainty about what lies in her future.
How does Alien: Romulus end? Alien: Romulus‘ final battle marks the moment when the film finds its most ingenious way to bridge the gaps between it and the other Alien movies. The nature and outcome of Rain’s climactic confrontation with Kay’s hybrid baby creates a clear parallel between Romulus and Alien, while the crossing of Kay’s human genes with those of a Xenomorph even manages to make something out of Alien Resurrection, a film that most fans had previously chosen to forget even existed.
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