Alien: Romulus
Alien: Romulus
Alien: Romulus revives a franchise that was losing ground and with jump-out-of-your-seat scares. Fede Álvarez, an Uruguayan movie director, crafts a ghostly, visceral thriller for the seventh series (without mentioning the terrible Predator crossovers) which deftly combines elements of sci-fi and horror at their most excellent. However it does not matter who will survive in the end as much as plot details or logic. It is a film that is meant to frighten by all means and this it does extremely well. The worst thing about him is his relentless attack. Which one of many ending would have been enough?
Cailee Spaeny plays Rain Carradine twenty years after Alien. She’s stuck on a mining planet so remote that sunlight never reaches it. Her parents succumbed to the deadly rife lung disease leaving her alone with her synthetic ‘brother.’ Starting the movie off as Rain’s slightly autistic android friend who constantly natters at her with dry jokes, Andy (David Jonsson) has an innocent expression on his face, stumbles over words when he talks and walks unsteadily.
Weyland-Yutani Corporation raised mining quotas for its bonded laborers without mercy. Rain realizes boldness is her only way out of this hellish prison. That chance comes when Tyler (Archie Renaux), an old admirer, makes a lucky find. Their planet has had an abandoned space station crash into its orbit; less than two days from now it will collide with the icy rings and be destroyed forever. Evidently they must have working cryo units somewhere they could scavenge.
Rain isn’t sure if this can be done safely though; there are just too many things that are unknown about it that make it dangerous for those involved in doing so. Without me there is no way having said Tyler but he goes on to say how they need Andy to help communicate with the station’s MU/TH/UR computer. Having given up any prospect of a better life, Rain agrees. She ought to have listened to her intuition.
Alien: Romulus presents desperation as a believable motivator. The colony is a squalid, grim pit of economic subjugation and despair. It is not the clean, bright future of unabated cheerfulness that Star Trek represents. Álvarez (Evil Dead, The Girl in the Spider’s Web) also doubles down on the franchise’s industrial production design. There is nothing sleek or smooth here; everything is ugly and mechanical and seethes with dread. Claustrophobics watching this will be repulsed as they see every character squeeze through small passages, some barely big enough for them to crawl through comfortably. Rain feels trapped.
Characters are put into unsettling situations where they have no idea what is going on around them at all which means that vicious little nasties could pop up from anywhere anytime… This moment maintains high level tension throughout the entire film.A particularly great scene was one of these moments in which people just screamed at the theater screen.Small wonder since it scares you genuinely rather than using cheap tricks.Alvarez manages to avoid being predictable by not telegraphing when things are about to get scary.
The sound track and camera work make Alien: Romulus terrifying. In Hidden Figures, Blade Runner 2049 and It; Benjamin Wallfisch has played his best role ever as a composer.He creates audio frights by borrowing from 2001: A Space Odyssey’s chilling operatic wailings.This combined together with Galo Olivares’ strange lighting and camera angles helps set up gory merciless killing spree.Alien: Romulus feels like an all-encompassing cinema experience which only happens if everyone behind the scenes are making exactly the same movie together.
The quibblers can pull apart the script. This involves the gaping plot holes that make one suspend one’s disbelief greatly. They are the two most majorly obvious ones. The whole colony is itching to get out of there. It would be impossible that a hulking, abandoned space station riddled with valuable tech could only have been seen by some brave kids of today. The Weyland-Yutani overlords didn’t see that? There should have been pandemonium in orbit.
There are also question marks over Andy’s prowess. Alien: Romulus heavily varies with regard to his powers as an artificial person such as strength and speed. He cannot open a door but later can lift something really heavy somehow. Andy is like a multi-tool, which functions fine for one second, but fails inexplicably in the next second. Jonsson has always played his part well in each different version of Andy’s life cycle; he experiences growth throughout these different stages enabling him to become a better version of himself. The film explores how AI fits into our daily lives from an important perspective Rain who is the closest companion to Andy may however be influenced by humans like any other machine designed for helping mankind; it makes us wonder if its survival is put on par with others’.
Spaeny hasn’t missed a beat when depicting compelling, untrained characters yet again this time around though. Priscilla and Civil War were her best performances and she continues it through another young lady marred by unspeakable events. Unlike Sigourney Weaver’s iconic Ripley who exudes leadership at first sight, Rain just doesn’t seem tough or physically imposing enough from the start either However, it does not mean she is stupid or incapable Rain has learned how to survive at the edge of civilization on this colony She knows what it takes when things go wrong She has matured into a strong female lead character who uses these monsters’ hideousness against them
Alien: Romulus is the best film of the franchise since James Cameron’s groundbreaking masterpiece. It certainly isn’t Aliens but it has got enough wow factor, adrenaline and pure terror in it The fans are going to go bonkers over an epic second act reveal. No spoilers. Alien: Romulus ought to have a sequel with Spaeny taking up where Ripley left off. She’s one of those great heroines who you always want to see succeed.
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- Genre: Featured, horror, Popular Movies, Sci-fic, Thriller, Top Rated Movies
- Country: United States
- Director: Fede Álvarez
- Cast: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu, Rosie Ede, Soma Simon, Bence Okeke, Viktor Orizu, Robert Bobroczkyi, Trevor Newlin, Annemarie Griggs, Ian Holm,
