Seen it, I have the unpleasant impression of a huge waste.
The film is full of super cool ideas here and there but none of them are exploited. The casting is not convincing and we feel no empathy for them due to a development time that feels rushed (despite lasting for 40+ minutes I think). The boring scenes accumulate, distilled between some nice set-ups (spoiler: almost none will be exploited). Once in the station, all characters lose 50 IQ points and start doing stupid things (except the Marie Sue obviously).
The worst part are the missed opportunities, and inevitably what comes to mind first is the acid scene. What a shame, FFS. I don't even want to elaborate and honestly the film is already out of my head because it's so... empty.
Romulus is full of inconsistencies, for sure it's less 'flamboyant' than a scientist who sticks his head in a disgusting egg but as an honorable mention we can still note the station of several kilometers which goes completely unnoticed except for 5 hicks on the ground, the Weyland are capable of finding the Xeno but not that? Or we can talk about the 400 Facehuggers which are 10 meters from where they take the cryo-fuel but no one questions or notices the dozens of disgusting pods??
The film is not scary at all, totally fails to create a stressful atmosphere and the few poor screamers did not work on me or the two other people who accompanied me. Two tiny "gore" scenes very quickly dispatched while we had situations with great potential but no, Fede Alvarez is satisfied with the minimum.
Yet another saga victim of cardboard scriptwriters incapable of producing something good, without forgetting the responsibility of Grandpa Scott who probably impose ridiculous specifications and stick his nose everywhere. It's hard to say who is most responsible, but I don't understand how they achieve such a result with a rich IP like Alien.
4/10.
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