Alien Romulus (2024)

Alien Romulus (2024)

7/10

Starring          

Cailee Spaeny

David Jonsson

Archie Renaux

Isabela Merced

Directed by Fede Álvarez

 

Alien Romulus is a good film, I tell you. It has been a while since I have seen a good film like this, and it carries its own weight of twist and turns, and it does homage to the franchise. There are ribcage bursting out things. Stabbing with the Alien tail, people running from a monster so huge that you wonder why not just give up. The movie plot is so dark it is amazing, and it is a great job done by director and writer Fede Álvarez.

It is a good thing to see what modern day graphics can do with these Alien creatures, and it is also amazing to see a familiar face. The moment I saw the late Iam Holm, I was like see what CGI can do. It was a nice work done, since we cannot get Sigourney Weaver’s character Ripley back into the franchise, thanks to the way the franchise has gone with her character.

This movie also takes place in space in 2142, and it follows the events of the first movie Alien (1979) the movie plot takes place between Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986).

After the events of the first movie, the humans took the remains of the Alien to a secret base to go work and see how they can merge the Alien DNA with that of humans and create a better evolved human race. Now how that played out, is something you will have to see, but this was a subplot in the movie that did not take hold until half-way in. So, what led to the Alien mounting another assault on the human race?

While they were doing their experiment in space, the Alien got out and damaged the whole space station. The whole thing was abandoned there in space.

Then comes Rain, an orphan miner who is trying to do enough time mining so she can finally leave the mining planet and go to a planet Yvaga where only humans live with the hope of a better life. Rain lives with her adoptive brother Andy, who is a cyborg with some broken motor functions, reprogrammed to protect Rain by her late father. When Rain was unable to leave the planet, her ex-boyfriend called her for a one-time job in space. The reason she was called is that they need Andy to help them get into the abandoned space station and steal the cryostasis chambers that will allow them to escape to the planet Yvaga. This was supposed to be a get in, get the chambers and get out, but as you know how these things go.

They got in, got the oxygen working, and they mistakenly got the heating on and the frozen cloned facehuggers got lose and well, as you can expect things did not go as planned from then on.

Enjoyed the movie more than I expected to.