Plot: Rain and her friends work for the Weyland-Yutani corporation but realize they'll never work off their debt. And so they devise a plan to escape to a nearby planet, where they can finally relax and experience a sunrise. For that, they need to salvage an abandoned space station, but they're not ready for what they'll find there.
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August 15, 2024
A perfectly decent space horror. Which is fine I guess, as I like this genre. But once again it doesn't do justice to the creature Giger created, and that's a big disappointment. Not that I expected to be blown away by Romulus, its marketing strategy was centered around oldskool effects and nods to the original, but Alvarez could have done a lot more.
My main pet peeve is that the Xenomorph never wins. This time, he is challenged by his most devious enemy yet: a group of young kids. The Xenomorph is a secondary character in his own franchise, instead, we get human drama, corporate overlords, and evil androids. The sets look old-fashioned, the direction is tepid and the third act is misguided. I still enjoyed large bits of this, but compared to its infinite potential, Romulus is an inexcusable dud.