It was with much delight that I found the film “Alien Romulus” available to view last night. I was in the perfect mood for a bit of gore and vodka. Oh, these are the days. I immediately thought of Sigourney Weaver and all of her brutal battles with the Alien. But times have changed.
My first thought was that the main characters looked like they should be in secondary school, not in some dark mining colony. Rain Carridine is informed that her work contract has been extended thus almost guaranteeing her death on the remote and hostile planet that her colony resides on. Determined to escape, she joins a plan with her adopted brother Andy—a malfunctioning android reprogrammed by her father—her ex-boyfriend Tyler, his pregnant sister Kay, their cousin Bjorn, and Bjorn’s adopted sister Navarro. The group commandeers the hauler Corbelan IV to reach Renaissance, a space station split into the modules Romulus and Remus, intending to steal hibernation equipment to survive the multi-year journey to Yvaga III, an apparently idyllic planet many light years away. All the time, blissfully unaware of the threat awaiting them
What follows is pure Alien franchise gold. There is everything that you want to see meshed in a cocktail of fear, dread, and bloody violence. Oh, the nostalgia!
I don’t want to ruin the joy but rest easy knowing there are only a few survivors. Just the way we like.
An evening well-spent, five stars out of five for me.
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