I liked it a LOT more than I expected to. It didn’t really scare me. Nothing does, though. But it was really fun and stayed fairly exciting throughout. I’m a SUPER harsh critic too. I give it 7.5/10.
It’s definitely the best of the franchise since Alien and Aliens. I went into it with low expectations and it exceeded them. That they included fake CGI Ian Holm I thought was really bad though. And the movie was still very formulaic.
I mean, if you’re going to use AI to create something, what better application is there for it than someone that is already an android/uncanny valley territory?
Definitely formulaic and contrived. But honestly, there aren’t that many new, unique stories to tell. Most plots are the same archetypes anyway.
lol. Not the target audience for this one, but this film was not « too good » to be scary. It was ambitious and adventurous. At best, as the author says in his own summary «…Alien: Romulus is kind of good. »
Falls apart by the third act. The CGI android callback was unnecessary and eyeroll inducing. They could’ve simply introduced a third android model.
The film was mediocre at best, a rehash of the previous episodes into one last recap. Kids is space. “There’s sumtingdawotta…Aaaagh!”. End of film. Boring and stupid.
That’s exactly the problem with these reboots of finished franchises. I get that they just want to use the name for marketing, but at least make something new and interesting, instead they just become filled with tropes. We have seen the facehuggers, the xenomorphs, etc loads now, come up with something new and focus on that. Which then brings us to the point that it might as well be a new franchise altogether instead of rehashing old ones.
I enjoyed it, but it certainly isn’t too good for anything.
It’s a fun romp, albeit somewhat typical. Screenplay is decent, but filled with a bit too much forced fan service. The world building is fantastic, though, and pretty much worth the price of admission itself.
The deepfake version of Ian Holm is pretty egregious. Given that they developed a puppet, and that the character was meant to be a broken android anyway (not a spoiler), I do wonder why they didn’t just lean in to the weird face of a puppet. Why are his movements weird and mechanistic? Because it’s a broken android. That may have aged better than the deepfake.
But overall, worth a watch, which is at least more than can be said for other series outings.
