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Alien: Romulus review

Alien: Romulus is out on streaming now so here's my thoughts:

  • It's certainly diverse - the only two white people in the film are c*nts and there's a genderless bald Asian girl pilot. I didn't think it was too nonsensically woke though.

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  • It feels like they tried to capitalise on the success of the 2002 Disney+ Predator film Prey, but the story also got mangled with a generic "everyone dies to the monster one-by-one" storyline.

  • It's fun enough but also pretty dumb. Was this really the best Alien script that someone could come up with since Covenant?

  • It explains far too much. Alien films should leave more questions than answers, but this has long scenes early in the film in which the entire plot and lore is explained.

  • The Rook CGI is horrendous. I can't believe it made it into the final cut.

  • It could have been scarier and had more tension. Too much story happens and there's not enough of people just creeping around.

  • The spaceship crashing into the ice belt scene is cool.

  • I don't understand why they made an Alien film but the final boss is some shitty Voldemort rip-off.

  • Why are there levers in the cargo hold that let someone detach the cargo hold mid-flight? That would be suicide.

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Do they bring up the engineers plot again?

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the black goo is in the movie

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I don't know what that is but there's an android who basically just exists to explain as much lore as possible.

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Engineers are the aliens that created humans and xenomorphs.

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Oh not really no, this film is more about current-day scientists trying to do experiments with Xenomorphs.

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Its visually referenced in the final fight with the half human/half xeno but not directly spoken about iirc

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Briefly, but it's more just monster chases girls through a spaceship until only one (the cutest one) is left, sweaty and in her underwater. All I really want from an alien movie, really

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