{"id":941574,"date":"2025-12-30T15:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=441159"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:07:18","slug":"alien-romulus-is-ready-player-one-for-the-alien-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/alien-romulus-is-ready-player-one-for-the-alien-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien: Romulus is Ready Player One for the Alien universe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fede \u00c1lvarez may have been the perfect director to refresh the Alien film franchise<\/a>. His movie Alien: Romulus<\/em><\/a> is incredibly well shot, with the camera slinking like a predator down each beautiful hallway in the failing Romulus space station, building tension with each step the characters take. Problem is, he just happened to be the worst possible writer for the job, too. When it comes time for those characters to speak, the whole film falls apart, turning into a hollow imitation of the better movies that came before it. It\u2019s obvious \u00c1lvarez loves the Alien franchise. It just feels like he loves it a little too much. <\/p>\n

You can feel \u00c1lvarez\u2019s enthusiasm for the franchise during every moment of the movie, but it too often bleeds into the characters, washing out any semblance of unique personalities in favor of making them amorphous blobs that can be crammed together into the rough shape of past Alien movies. Alien: Romulus<\/em> feels weirdly like Ernest Cline\u2019s novel Ready Player One<\/em>, where the characters worship pop culture so fanatically and thoroughly that their favorite shows, movies, and games are indistinguishable from their actual personalities. Similarly, none of Romulus<\/em>\u2019 characters feel like believable people who could inhabit the Alien universe. They feel like 20-somethings who watched Alien movies obsessively, then got transported into their favorite sci-fi setting. <\/p>\n

Nearly every other line in Romulus<\/em> is a reference to another movie in the franchise, or feels self-consciously tied to the series\u2019 past. More than once, a character almost literally turns to the camera to recite a catchphrase, like a repetition of Alien<\/em>\u2019s memorable line<\/a> \u201cI can\u2019t lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies.\u201d And each time, that line is delivered with a bizarre, atonal resonance that\u2019s rooted in reference to the Alien series as a product, not in the movie we\u2019re actually watching.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Like Steven Spielberg\u2019s Ready Player One<\/em> movie adaptation, Alien: Romulus<\/em> mostly looks great \u2014 and far better than the script deserves. Spielberg\u2019s action set-pieces and sense of grandeur aren\u2019t at their peak in Ready Player One<\/em>, but they\u2019re still present, particularly when he\u2019s emulating The Shining<\/em> in one of the movie\u2019s last sequences. It\u2019s exciting and visually engaging, but at best, it still feels like an emptier version of a classic. <\/p>\n

The same is true for \u00c1lvarez with Romulus<\/em>. He shows tremendous craft in recreating the kind of grimy, smoky images that make Ridley Scott\u2019s Alien <\/em>and James Cameron\u2019s Aliens <\/em>so textured and gorgeous. What holds back both Ready Player One<\/em> and Romulus<\/em>, however, is that their references are so complete and carefully curated, compared to the actual original stories around them, that the new material feels lifeless. Romulus<\/em>\u2019 version of this formula is far more successful than Ready Player One<\/em>\u2019s, but the distracting sense of pure facsimile is still present. Worst of all, the best moments in both films are really just reminders of the better, more exciting movies we\u2019ve already seen. <\/p>\n

Romulus<\/em>\u2019 familiar-looking locations \u2014 drippy, underlit, industrial spaces, a dark and foreboding planetary surface, and so forth \u2014 are plagued by this sense of bizarre, uncanny-valley imitation of life. So are the characters \u2014 and none so much as protagonist Rain (Civil War<\/em><\/a> co-star Cailee Spaeny). It\u2019s clear that the starting point for Rain was Alien<\/em>\u2019s Ripley: a capable survivor, and a staple in the all-time canon of \u201ccool\u201d characters. But Ripley is cool in a way that\u2019s decidedly unmodern. She\u2019s competent, but not a genius. She solves problems as often with luck and gut instincts as with cleverness. More importantly, Ripley is a little mean. She\u2019s clearly unconcerned about being likable, yet she\u2019s unmistakably charming \u2014 both on the page and in Sigourney Weaver\u2019s timeless performances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rain, however, is definitively cut from modern blockbuster cloth. She\u2019s Rey Skywalker with a little R-rated blood splattered on her face \u2014 another franchise protagonist who seems to have watched all the movies in a franchise before joining it. Rain is a super-genius. She has a perfect answer to every problem that comes up in Romulus<\/em>, whether it\u2019s mechanical, biological, military, or otherwise. And we have no real explanation for that, other than \u201cher dad was smart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everyone loves Rain. She\u2019s kind, she\u2019s capable, she has the answer to every question. She treats androids like people. She\u2019s nice to everyone, even if they\u2019re mean to her, and she\u2019ll always try to save them from terrifying situations, no matter how much danger that puts her in. She is, in other words, completely unobjectionable and utterly without charm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like so many other recent blockbuster protagonists, Rain feels like she was genetically engineered for likability. That just leaves all her edges sanded down and smoothed out to avoid any roughness that audiences could find objectionable. The side effect of all this smoothness is that it also removes any chance for a memorable splinter of that character to get under our skin and stick with us forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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[Ed. note: <\/strong>Major spoilers ahead for Alien: Romulus<\/em>, and for Alien<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

But while Rain is a good-natured attempt at recapturing Alien<\/em>\u2019s magic that doesn\u2019t jibe well with the mechanisms of modern blockbusters, the CG \u201creturn\u201d of the late Ian Holm as a major Romulus <\/em>character is franchise reverence at its most sinister and skin-crawlingly corporate. <\/p>\n

Ian Holm\u2019s character, Ash, is one of the most fascinating, memorable elements of the original Alien<\/em>. This resolute, bizarre science officer, eventually revealed as a secret android, was sent by the mysterious Weyland-Yutani corporation to ensure its best interests are always served, no matter the cost. He\u2019s a cold, careless, logic-only machine that prioritizes potential profits above human lives, and he\u2019s willing to kill everyone aboard the spaceship Nostromo in the hope that there\u2019s some way to make money off the Xenomorph. He\u2019s also Alien<\/em>\u2019s least subtle and most effective thematic device, letting us know that there\u2019s a terrible cost to putting profit ahead of humanity, in the future just as much as in the present<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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That theme does \u00c1lvarez no favors in Alien: Romulus<\/em>, where he decided to use CGI to recreate Ian Holm\u2019s 1979 face and voice, though the actor died in 2020. It\u2019s clear that \u00c1lvarez is a fan of Holm\u2019s performance in Alien<\/em>, but this act of nonconsensual digital necromancy feels as soulless, calculated, and driven by profit as Ash the android was in the original movie. <\/p>\n

This digital faux resurrection isn\u2019t unique to Romulus<\/em><\/a>, but it does feel more galling here. The digital Holm isn\u2019t a quick posthumous cameo like digital Harold Ramis in Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/em><\/a>; his new android character, Rook, reappears constantly throughout the movie. <\/em>And each time, this specific comparison feels inescapable: The people behind this movie valued profit for their company above all, no matter the human cost. That metaphor carries through Romulus<\/em>, too. Whether it\u2019s Rain being stripped of any identifiable weakness or humanity or the cloying way that recognizable lines and props get fed straight to the camera, the whole movie feels as artificial as the franchise\u2019s androids.<\/p>\n

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Fede \u00c1lvarez may have been the perfect director to refresh the Alien film franchise. His movie Alien: Romulus is incredibly well shot, with the camera slinking like a predator down each beautiful hallway in the failing Romulus space station, building tension with each step the characters take. Problem is, he just happened to be the worst possible writer for the job, too. When it comes time for those characters to speak, the whole film falls apart, turning into a hollow imitation of the better movies that came before it. It\u2019s obvious \u00c1lvarez loves the Alien franchise. It just feels like he loves it a little too much.  You can feel \u00c1lvarez\u2019s enthusiasm for the franchise during every moment of the movie, but it too often…<\/p>\n

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