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‘Ash’ Review: New Planet, Same Old Threats in Flying Lotus’ Hollow-Core, Flashy-Looking ‘Alien’ Remix
Eiza González plays the lone survivor of a deep-space bloodbath in 'Ash,' which saves its boldest ideas for your eyeballs, not its recycled script.
), “Ash” opens with a shot of the cosmic turmoil swarming inside the brain of an astronaut far, far away from earth, then pulls back abruptly, zooming out through her pupil to reveal the look of pure panic on the face of sole survivor Riya Ortiz (Eiza González). Riya awakens at the beginning with a nasty gash to her temple, having forgotten all that happened, but quickly clued into the still-volatile situation by the corpses of three of her fellow crew members: Kevin (Beulah Koale), Adhi (Iko Uwais) and Davis (Flying Lotus). But it fits within the director’s overall vision, which serves up all kinds of striking images: Riya standing outdoors as flakes of ash fall on her face; sleek interior rooms lit indigo and red; an angry typhoon bursting up from a borehole on a terraformed planet; a squirm-inducing, deep-cranial parasite extraction.
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