Alien: Romulus
You have to be a twisted, aging movie fan like me to like this film.
Alright, Alright, here is the reality of being an Alien fan and overlooking its weaknesses. This is the 7th film in this long series and I’ve been entertained by every one of them.
The original Alien film was released in 1979. There you watched Ripley, Sigourney Weaver, activate the spaceship Nostromo’s self-destruct system to kill Xenomorph, the alien creature. She failed as it escaped into the shuttle with her.
In this film, you meet Rain Carradine (Cailee Spaeny) and Andy (David Jonsson), her adopted android brother. They work in an overcrowded space mining colony and learn that their mining contract has been arbitrarily extended.
As a result, they hitch a ride with several friends to a decommissioned space station hovering nearby. They hope to be able to flee to a distant planet.
The rest of the movie involves our characters battling with monsters that hover on the space station. You discover that the station is actually the Nostromo from the original film. It has now been used to study the aliens that Ms. Weaver’s Ripley thought she had ejected into space.
In any event, Ms. Spaeny and Mr. Jonsson shine as they try to help everyone escape the station. But the monsters are brutal as they attach to victims in order to reproduce. It is brutally unnerving at times as you watch Spaeny and Jonsson’s friends slowly get captured and die.
I’ll give nothing else away as you watch the film leaving you covering your eyes at times. While it has been a big hit at the box office, this is not a movie that will appeal to many of you.
Let this review serve as both praise and a warning.
