{"id":935107,"date":"2025-12-29T18:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=440146"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:28:18","slug":"alien-romulus-is-an-imperfect-organism-spliced-together-from-the-franchises-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/alien-romulus-is-an-imperfect-organism-spliced-together-from-the-franchises-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien: Romulus is an imperfect organism spliced together from the franchise\u2019s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: 20th Century Studios\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/alien-romulus-is-an-imperfect-organism-spliced-together-from-the-franchises-best.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">Ask five different Alien fans what their favorite movies from the franchise are and why they love them, and you\u2019ll likely get five different answers. Still, it all but goes without saying that every subsequent entry in the series gets measured by its level of similarity to one of two films: Ridley Scott\u2019s 1979 original and James Cameron\u2019s 1986 sequel <em>Aliens<\/em>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24106851\/alien-romulus-trailer-scary-wow-fantastic\"><em>Alien: Romulus<\/em><\/a>, the latest installment in the series, writer-director Fede \u00c1lvarez and frequent co-writer Rodo Sayagues (<em>Don\u2019t Breathe<\/em>) wear their love of Scott\u2019s and Cameron\u2019s films as proudly as any fans of the franchise would, to the film\u2019s visual merit and narrative detriment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Set 20 years after the events of <em>Alien<\/em>, \u00c1lvarez\u2019s film centers on Rain Carradine (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24099490\/civil-war-review-2024-alex-garland\"><em>Civil War<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Cailee Spaeny), an orphan living on Jackson\u2019s Star, a mining colony light-years away from Earth that\u2019s shrouded in an unending dark storm. Her mother and father are dead; her only companion is Andy (David Jonsson), a malfunctioning synthetic android she cares for as a surrogate sibling. Desperate for a means to escape the colony \u2014 and the grasp of the Weyland-Yutani corporation, the Alien franchise\u2019s true central villain \u2014 Rain agrees to join a group of friends as they break into a derelict station that\u2019s drifted into their planet\u2019s orbit. What they find aboard is not salvation, but a threat beyond their wildest imagination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cIs it as good as <em>Alien<\/em> or <em>Aliens<\/em>?\u201d is the obvious question franchise fans will ask when weighing whether to see <em>Alien: Romulus<\/em>. \u00c1lvarez and Sayagues seem to have been uncomfortably aware that this question was coming. They anticipated those five different answers about what Alien fans love from the previous films, and tried to split the difference between all of them and more. Like the Romulus and Remus stations, which serve as the film\u2019s setting,<em> Alien: Romulus<\/em> is made up of roughly two parts: a haunted-house story in outer space \u00e0 la <em>Alien<\/em>, and a crowd-pleasing horror-action spectacle like <em>Aliens<\/em>. The former element is stronger than the latter in this case, and the imbalance is one of the reasons <em>Alien: Romulus<\/em> feels like a by-the-numbers retread of the franchise defining it, rather than the resuscitative breath it so desperately needs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/alien-romulus-is-an-imperfect-organism-spliced-together-from-the-franchises-best-1.jpg\" alt=\"A xenomorph alien creature opening its jaws mere inches away from a young woman\u2019s face in Alien: Romulus.A xenomorph alien creature opening its jaws mere inches away from a young woman\u2019s face in Alien: Romulus.\" title=\"A xenomorph alien creature opening its jaws mere inches away from a young woman\u2019s face in Alien: Romulus.A xenomorph alien creature opening its jaws mere inches away from a young woman\u2019s face in Alien: Romulus.\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: 20th Century Studios\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">There are gratifying aspects to this movie: <em>Alien: Romulus<\/em>\u2019 set and production design easily place it as one of the most visually impressive sci-fi movies to come out this year, fastidiously replicating the <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CassetteFuturism\">cassette futurism<\/a> and tactility of Scott\u2019s original film while introducing \u201cnew\u201d technology that still feels like it fits in the setting. Benjamin Wallfisch\u2019s score is another high point, echoing Jerry Goldsmith\u2019s iconic orchestral music from <em>Alien<\/em> while introducing discordant, abrasive notes of industrial sound when shit really hits the fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Spaeny and Jonsson inarguably deliver the strongest performances in the film\u2019s ensemble. Rain is obviously coded as <em>Alien: Romulus<\/em>\u2019 answer to Ellen Ripley, though she\u2019s far from a one-to-one facsimile of Sigourney Weaver\u2019s character. Rain isn\u2019t a hardened space trucker with a do-or-die knack for survivalism, she\u2019s a scared young woman trying to claw her way out from under the crushing weight of corporate debt bondage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">When her love for Andy is pitted against her chance to leave Jackson\u2019s Star, she has to weigh the consequences of that fateful decision along with the moment-to-moment choices that mean the difference between her survival and certain death. She\u2019s trying to make the best of a shitty situation that only gets worse as more and more of her friends die. And the only way out of hell is to go through it and come out the other side.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/alien-romulus-is-an-imperfect-organism-spliced-together-from-the-franchises-best-2.jpg\" alt=\"A man standing over the shoulder of a woman as she aims down the sights of a futuristic rifle in Alien: Romulus.A man standing over the shoulder of a woman as she aims down the sights of a futuristic rifle in Alien: Romulus.\" title=\"A man standing over the shoulder of a woman as she aims down the sights of a futuristic rifle in Alien: Romulus.A man standing over the shoulder of a woman as she aims down the sights of a futuristic rifle in Alien: Romulus.\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: 20th Century Studios\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Jonsson&#8217;s turn as Andy is one of the most affecting performances in the entire film. Andy isn\u2019t <em>Alien: Romulus<\/em>\u2019 answer to Ash, the first <em>Alien<\/em>\u2019s android science officer turned antagonist. He\u2019s more like a mirror reflection of Michael Fassbender\u2019s David from <em>Prometheus<\/em> and <em>Alien: Covenant<\/em>, if someone had ever bothered to teach him love \u2014 or <em>anything<\/em>, for that matter, apart from deference to his creator and Weyland-Yutani\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Just as Rain has to decide whether to leave without Andy, he faces the choice of abandoning Rain and her friends in service of the Company\u2019s interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23593379\/best-sci-fi-alien-xenomorph-ridley-scott-45th-anniversary\">the Xenomorph<\/a>, or fighting for their survival, while knowing they very well might not do the same for him. The answer he lands on, while predictable, speaks volumes about his resolve and strength of character in the face of both overwhelming terror and the inner moral battle raging between his better angels and his company programming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">How do you make the Xenomorph scary again after so many movie outings, all copying the original two films? In the case of <em>Alien: Romulus<\/em>, the answer is simple: You don&#8217;t. \u00c1lvarez never fully nails how to make the franchise-defining aliens feel threatening in a way that moviegoers haven&#8217;t already seen in the past 40 years. Despite some cross-species evolutionary chicanery in the film\u2019s final act, <em>Alien: Romulus<\/em> never brings forward its own answer for why audiences should fear this incarnation of the creature, as opposed to any other previous iteration from the franchise. Some inventive sequences make use of Xenomorphs in entertaining ways, including one standout scene featuring zero gravity. But this isn\u2019t a movie that depicts the franchise\u2019s most iconic monster as a singular, inscrutable, acid-spewing apex predator \u2014 it\u2019s just a swarm of colonial marine rifle-fodder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/alien-romulus-is-an-imperfect-organism-spliced-together-from-the-franchises-best-3.jpg\" alt=\"A woman screaming while firing a futuristic rifle at the claws of a unseen creature in Alien: Romulus.A woman screaming while firing a futuristic rifle at the claws of a unseen creature in Alien: Romulus.\" title=\"A woman screaming while firing a futuristic rifle at the claws of a unseen creature in Alien: Romulus.A woman screaming while firing a futuristic rifle at the claws of a unseen creature in Alien: Romulus.\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: 20th Century Studios\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">For those worried that <em>Alien: Romulus<\/em> might skirt around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/alien-romulus-comic-con-2024\">the psychosexual imagery<\/a> the franchise\u2019s earliest entries were known for, don&#8217;t worry; it&#8217;s present here, though in short supply. We literally see a character stab an electric stun prod into an unambiguously vaginal cocoon before facing what can only be described as a clitoral talon. Later, as acid seeps from a cocoon\u2019s mouth down onto a victim\u2019s writhing body, a Xenomorph stirs from its gestation, shucking its amniotic carapace like an erect penis protruding from the folds of its foreskin. Don&#8217;t look at me like that: This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awberyart.com\/blog\/hans-giger-alien\">another H.R. Giger-derived film<\/a>, after all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Fede \u00c1lvarez and co. spliced together DNA from the original <em>Alien<\/em>, Cameron\u2019s sequel, and Scott\u2019s more recent prequel films to see if something new could be born out of them \u2014&nbsp;but they don\u2019t introduce any new genetic material of their own. The result is a technically impressive but narratively rote horror thriller that leaps at every opportunity to ape its forebears, while curiously contributing very little of its own to that legacy. That\u2019s fine if you\u2019re looking to re-experience a couple of your old favorite scares with a brand-new coat of paint slapped on them. But for everyone else,<em> Alien: Romulus<\/em> is a serviceable yet underwhelming entry in a franchise that\u2019s otherwise known for its relentless evolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><sub><em>Alien: Romulus<\/em> debuts in theaters on Aug. 16.<\/sub><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/review\/440146\/alien-romulus-is-an-imperfect-organism-spliced-together-from-the-franchises-best\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask five different Alien fans what their favorite movies from the franchise are and why they love them, and you\u2019ll likely get five different answers. Still, it all but goes without saying that every subsequent entry in the series gets measured by its level of similarity to one of two films: Ridley Scott\u2019s 1979 original and James Cameron\u2019s 1986 sequel Aliens. In Alien: Romulus, the latest installment in the series, writer-director Fede \u00c1lvarez and frequent co-writer Rodo Sayagues (Don\u2019t Breathe) wear their love of Scott\u2019s and Cameron\u2019s films as proudly as any fans of the franchise would, to the film\u2019s visual merit and narrative detriment. Set 20 years after the events of Alien, \u00c1lvarez\u2019s film centers on Rain Carradine (Civil War\u2019s Cailee Spaeny), an orphan&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/alien-romulus-is-an-imperfect-organism-spliced-together-from-the-franchises-best\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":935108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alien: Romulus is an imperfect organism spliced together from the franchise\u2019s best | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ask five 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