Alien: Romulus
Alien: Romulus
7.180%85%
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Paulo Coelho Alves reviewedOctober 19, 2024
At this point I’m not even sure how to review Alien movies. Ridley Scott made a perfect movie with the original and this one basically is all about capturing its sense of claustrophobia. Everything from the design of ships to the all-encompassing, all-consuming Weyland-Yutani Corporation—painted here in much more obvious strokes—is meant to invoke despair, a universe wholly in the grip of monsters out of our deepest nightmares.
The thing is, those words could be lifted out a review of the original movie. What’s new then? Unfortunately not much. This is a movie leas concerned with doing something new with the material as it is with reminding you of its greatness. As a piece of pure homage it works, and even stands on its own in a couple of inspired sequences. But it simply can’t escape the gravitational pull of the original.