Alien: Romulus is a scifi/horror movie, the latest in the Alien franchise. Between the events of Alien and Aliens a group of young miners go to salvage an abandoned ship. What is on the ship is more dangerous than they anticipated!
The young cast flounders to cut out any kind of believable or 3D character. There's talent there but they are not seasoned enough to really make much of the rote, exposition heavy script. The sole exception is David Jonsson as the android Andy, who is the only one who(ironically) conveys realistic emotion and who's journey actually has some traction and interest. There's a legacy appearance from Alien via CGI that is an astonishing misjudgment. All-in-all just not great casting or directing of the performances and the actors are mostly just indistinguishably adrift.
It looks incredible. The sets, the practical effects, the creature design. Its all really good and transportive and leans more heavily into horror/body horror than previous installments. There's little philosophizing like there was in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant which is too its credit. But all the effort and skill ultimately can't overcome how poor the script is and how confused the performances are. The outline, the idea, for the movie isn't bad but what the characters say and do is so bafflingly dumb and devoid of any kind of inner logic its all rendered relatively meaningless.
Transparent attempt to hook Gen Z into the Alien franchise mostly misfires. Massive potential hamstrung by unnecessary plotting.
Currently in theaters.
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