'Alien: Romulus': Is this new film in the long-running Alien saga worth watching?

@ElentirENG ES 8·25·2024 · 18:34 0

On August 15, "Alien: Romulus", the eighth film derived from "Alien: the eighth passenger" from 1979, was released in Spain.

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I have to say that I didn't see this film until August 23rd and I went to the cinema with doubts. In fact, I hadn't planned to go see it, because I thought it would be more of the same and another attempt to stretch out a series of films that was already very long and in some cases I wasn't very convinced. But in the absence of better alternatives, and since I'm a big fan of science fiction, I finally decided to see this film.

Despite everything, "Alien: Romulus" seemed to me better than I expected and, in fact, I liked it more than previous installments of this series. This film was directed by the Uruguayan Fede Álvarez, who already directed a film that caught my attention: "Don't Breathe" (2016). It seems that his contribution to "Alien: Romulus" has been for the best, because it is, perhaps, one of the films that comes closest to the spirit of the first two in this saga, something that was already missing.

One point that will make many people doubt is Disney's role in this film, since that company acquired 20th Century Fox, the producer of the Alien film series. Lately, Disney has been destroying everything it touches with its desire to impose an ideological filter in line with the leftist "woke" movement in the United States. This has happened with Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars films. Fortunately, in "Alien: Romulus" I have not seen the ideological imprint of Disney, something that is appreciated.

As for the cast, it is perhaps one of the weak points of the film. I make two exceptions: first of all, Cailee Spaeny, whom we saw a few months ago in "Civil War", is very good in the lead role, a role that seems at times to have been thought of to recall that of Sigourney Weaver in the first film in the series (with the appropriate differences, of course). On the other hand, the British David Jonsson has done a good job as Andy, the android that accompanies the protagonist. Beyond that, the rest of the characters suffer from the lack of depth that is common in many films in the slasher subgenre, because at the end of the day the Alien films are part of that subgenre, with extraterrestrial monsters in the place of Freddy Krueger.

In short, I liked "Alien: Romulus" and I think it's worth going to see it. However, if you don't like science-fiction films or scenes of monsters killing people, it's obvious that this film won't be to your liking... Here is the trailer: