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The Ending of Alien: Romulus Is an Abomination By Design
Fede Álvarez’s legacy sequel pulls off a satisfying trick, splicing old and new DNA to create something genuinely freakish.
In the third act of Romulus, Rain (Cailee Spaeny) and her android brother Andy (David Jonsson) fight off an endless onslaught of Xenomorphs, while Kay (Isabela Merced) — the one other human survivor — makes her way to the stolen cryopods stashed on their ship. The familiarity of its ending — and much of the movie that precedes it — will be dismissed by some as a pale facsimile of earlier, better films, rendering Romulus a superfluous cash-grab installment for a franchise that usually holds itself to a higher standard. As this era of IP shows no sign of abating, this feels like a best-case scenario: a filmmaker finding genuine joy and inspiration playing in a franchise sandbox, and digging up something truly unsettling in the process.
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