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Summary If you ask the right person, they will tell you there are no bad Alien movies. Even at its worst , the Alien movies are still oozing with the kind of horror that makes any sort of space travel seem like the worst idea ever. Alien: Romulus is no different in this regard. Fede Alvarez, known for the utterly bleak and brutal 2013 Evil Dead remake and the suffocating tension of 2016's Don't Breathe, is the latest director to make his mark on the franchise.
In many ways, Romulus feels like a classic Alien movie. The opening credits evoke that of the original 1979 film. It has a slow buildup that ratchets up the tension before the facehuggers emerge. There's a morally ambiguous android character. The film even opts for dated analogue technology as opposed to the sleek, modern tech we've seen in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.
Alien's Established Formula Doesn't Hurt Romulus But it's caught between two movies Close Ultimately, Romulus finds itself stuck in some liminal space between the sheen of contemporary blockbuster filmmaking, with its franchise callbacks and interstellar scale, and the lo-fi tension that leads to abject terror in the original films.
1 A third act twist, one that is sure to delight Prometheus lovers , results in a gnarly birth scene and a classic monster chase that feels both of its franchise and a new, uglier version of Alien. While thematically light compared to previous entries, Romulus is a damn good time, a collision of what made the Alien movies great and what made the new prequels so divisive.
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