Is Alien: Romulus the comeback film its sci-fi franchise has long needed?

Is Alien: Romulus really the return to form that its sci-fi franchise has long been in desperate need of? Or is it another unfortunate disappointment?

It’s been a long time since an Alien movie was received with open arms and rapturous applause by audiences — 38 years, to be exact. Since James Cameron’s Alien s, which reimagined Ridley Scott’s original, immaculately directed creature feature as a shoot-’em-up action blockbuster, the franchise has released a number of divisive, uneven follow-up installments.

Romulus gives fans of the franchise what they want In some ways, Alien: Romulus is exactly the film that the Alien franchise has been in need of in recent years. It’s a bare-bones thriller that doesn’t try to overcomplicate its series’ mythology in the same manner as Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, and it also isn’t nearly as dependent on digital effects as those movies.

Too much fan service can be a bad thing Alien: Romulus, in other words, does almost everything right, but the key word there is “almost.” Rather than having complete faith in the strength of its standalone story, the film feels the need to pack in references to other Alien movies that greatly lessen its individual power.

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