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Alien: Romulus Gets the Job Done, But at What Cost?
It’s a movie engineered mostly to provide basic genre thrills and keep the IP alive so the now-Disney-owned Fox can generate more Alien movies.
Romulus takes place after the events of Scott’s first Alien(1979), and it also appears to have taken a page out of the director’s Blade Runner(1982), with its initial scenes of the dark, wet, overcrowded space mining colony of Jackson’s Star, where we meet young Rain Carradine ( Cailee Spaeny) and her adoptive android brother, Andy (David Jonsson). After learning that her mining contract has been brutally extended by the all-powerful Weyland-Yutani corporation, Rain hitches a ride with her ex-flame Tyler (Archie Renaux) and his pals to a decommissioned space station hovering in orbit. Scott’s later prequels, Prometheus(2012) and the aforementioned Covenant, went in a more philosophical direction, sidelining the scares in favor of a general sense of existential unease, taking the previous films’ subtext and making it fascinatingly overt.
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