Alien_ Romulus - Movie Review in English
Alien_ Romulus - Movie Review in English
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01:01Wow, this review is gonna be more difficult than I anticipated it being. There's just a lot that happens in the movie
01:06that's not shown in the trailer. I would consider them spoilers. So if this review comes across as vague,
01:11I'm just trying to do right by you.
01:14So here we go.
01:17So
01:20Alien Romulus is a new Alien film. It's what happens when Alien Covenant comes out,
01:25then that whole Prometheus thing is just not gonna be a trilogy.
01:28This is directed by Fede Alvarez, who directed the 2013 Evil Dead. Is it Fede Alvarez or Fede Alvarez?
01:36One of those gotta be right, right? Or not. So in Alien Romulus,
01:39we follow this new young crew who board this derelict space station. No one's around. Everything's dark. It's dingy. It's creepy.
01:46There are holes in the ground. Why? What happened here? Well, we're about to find out. Well, they're about to find out.
01:52We already know. And you feel that love for the original Alien from the get-go. The tech all looks the same.
01:57It's all old-school CRTs. That would be the tube televisions. Now, Kaylee Spaney's the lead of this film. She's the lead.
02:03She's the heart. Her and David Johnson, who plays her brother.
02:06I like the dynamic between the two. Fede Alvarez does some really interesting things with their dynamic, with their relationship.
02:13Ideologies and how to go about the situation. What's best for the situation. And David Johnson, as her brother, I thought he was great.
02:20I felt he had a lot to do in the film, and I thought he stuck the landing really well. As for the crew,
02:27they're broken up into two camps here. Brash enough for you to be like, yeah,
02:30I hope you bite it, and I hope it looks amazing. Or, I'm rooting for you to get through this.
02:35But if you do bite it, I hope it looks amazing. I expected this movie to exist in a vacuum, in a bubble.
02:41I thought it was just gonna be like, yep, alien movies have happened. Here's just another thing.
02:45It's other people who just ran across the situation involving facehuggers and aliens.
02:49But this movie did have moments and things where if you're an alien fan, a fan of this universe, you're gonna catch him.
02:55You're gonna know him. And it's not Easter eggs for nostalgia bait or anything like that. It just feels like the world they're dealing with.
03:01Well, there's there's one thing in particular where I was like that,
03:05that feels more like it. But, on the other hand, I did like seeing it.
03:09And yeah, in terms of atmosphere and tone, this is definitely a film that's throwing back to the film
03:16that's patient zero in terms of
03:19inspiration for any of the sci-fi survival horror you might have enjoyed in your life. That feeling of claustrophobic dark spaces.
03:27You're in a spaceship or space station.
03:29There's no real escape. That feeling of playing Doom with no ammo. All you got is your fists.
03:36No berserk mode either. The tension. That's what this film does well.
03:39Alien Romulus is tension and anxiety in a two-hour bottle. That comes down to the sound design, too.
03:45It's really intense in here.
03:46You don't get a clear look at the alien because the people
03:49trying to hide from an alien aren't going to get a clear look at the alien. You see as much as they see, which for
03:55a large section of this movie ain't much. Less is more. That's how the original alien did it. That's how this film does it.
04:01I appreciate it. This movie does borrow from other alien movies, sometimes other movies in general, or pieces of entertainment, but definitely other alien movies.
04:08There are more than a few scenarios in here where you're like, I recognize that, but it's done with a modern-day twist.
04:13Example, because it was in the trailer, stuck in a room with facehuggers. They're faster, more intense. There are more of them.
04:18We saw that in Aliens. Newt and Ripley were stuck in a room with two facehuggers.
04:22Now these characters are stuck in a room with a bunch of facehuggers.
04:25But I gotta say, I felt the tension in Aliens, in which it was Newt and Ripley and just two facehuggers,
04:30more than I felt the tension in the facehugger scene in Alien Romulus.
04:34It's a bit ironic, since Alien Romulus is thrown back to the less is more concept, except for facehuggers, in which there are a lot
04:40more of them, and they are aggressive. Am I concentrating on the facehuggers too much? Possibly.
04:44But in terms of ratio, no more than the movie did, the facehuggers were a huge threat in this film for the first half,
04:50easily. And I, while watching the movie, felt like you probably feel right now,
04:53which is, I'm ready to move on from the facehuggers, if anyone else is.
04:57So there is one cool segment in particular that they did with the facehuggers, which I've also seen in other things.
05:02For example, The Walking Dead. But this movie has, best I can say it, are
05:06environmental elements that they have to worry about also.
05:08I do think the film goes on a little too long, like it ends a couple times.
05:12I would have been fine with the first ending, and I was like, oh, it's still going. Because we've had one, yes.
05:16What about second ending? Right, second ending.
05:19Let's, okay, here we go. I mean, granted, second ending is leading to some creepy shit, just visually speaking.
05:25It's a lot more body horror in this film, too, that I didn't expect, though.
05:29I mean, you can look at Alien and be like, yeah, an alien busts out of someone's chest. That's...
05:34What else was it? In ways I can't explain, more so here.
05:37It's like, for second ending, this movie wanted to go bigger. Everything feels bigger, but this film was in the pocket.
05:43It was in the Goldilocks zone, when it felt smaller. I do call BS on a couple things.
05:49No spoilers, though. It's kind of cheap for me to be like, I call BS, can't talk about it. That's got to be annoying.
05:54I apologize for that. But in terms of how all this happens, I was like...
06:00Really, though? In the end, there are some flaws, but all in all, I enjoyed Alien Romulus.
06:05It dragged on near the end, got a bit weird with the film's creepy atmosphere, tone, and sound design.
06:09It, in large part, did what it set out to do, which was bring Alien back to a horror film.
06:14I don't get to say this enough, so I look for opportunities to say it.
06:18Alien Romulus is worth watching and worth buying on VHS.
06:21Alright, so Alien Romulus, have you seen it? What did you think about it?
06:24What's your favorite and least favorite Alien movies?
06:27Or you can rank them if you want. Yes, include AVP if you'd like.
06:30That'd be a wild list. Alien films have had great, they've had ass.
06:35Can't wait to see what you say.
06:36Whatever you think, comment below, let me know.
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