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‘Alien: Romulus’ Review: Nasty Surprises Lurk In The Dark Corners Of Fede Álvarez’s Faithful But Inventively Tense Sequel
‘Alien: Romulus’ review: Nasty surprises Lurk in the dark corners of Fede Álvarez’s faithful but inventively tense sequel
The seventh instalment in the increasingly aimless Alien franchise is better than it has any right to be, a genuinely thoughtful reimagining that pays stylish homage to the one-two punch packed by Ridley Scott and James Cameron in 1979 and 1986 but adds in some inventively nasty surprises of its own. This time round, though, the blue-collar drudgery is baked in; Spaeney’s character, Rain Carradine, is part of a younger generation in hock to the industrial complex (to borrow from Tennessee Ernie Ford’s still-relevant 1955 coal-mining blues lament “16 Tons”, they owe more than their soul to the company store). More so than any director after Scott, including Cameron, Álvarez dives into the icky sexual subtext of the xenomorph’s life cycle, which bloodily caps a seemingly innocuous subplot that begins when the film’s most minor character reveals she is pregnant.
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