Alien: Romulus 2024 by AverageMansReviews

Alien: Romulus 2024 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/robotics/birth/animal feeding/decomposing/disintegrating/disfigurement/stabbing/electrocution/bodily functions/shooting/medical

Weyland-Yutani: briefly we meet Rain [Cailee Spaeny:] she is an orphaned miner for this megacorporation, she has a brother Andy [David Jonsson:] a synthetic/reprogrammed android by Rain's father as her surrogate brother and their jokes. She gets offered to be a part of this skirmish to this very familiar location to find these very useful items, but they can't do it without Andy also, I am sure that nothing can or will go wrong; but hey at least we get to see a familiar face does well.

Generally speaking: the script, framework and pacing of this 119 minutes film is/are problematic [don't give a wrong on the whole this instalment of this franchise is good,] but as you will read there are problems. Like straight off the bat for about 40 minutes there is no aliens/xenomorphs and just to cover my back the 40 minutes is just a guess and without giving too much away; they really did screw up the closing section of this instalment; they could have ended this instalment about yet again another guess 20 minutes earlier and really made it some great content for a potential sequel, which I'm not saying there won't be a sequel or I am not confirming that there is a sequel. I'm just saying for here and now they really blew it for a follow-on sequel, to the point where I said to the person I watch some of this content with; "There will be a sequel." But the more I watched of the closing stages I was like "Please stop, you are destroying an excellent idea/avenue for the sequel."The background music mostly does nothing for this instalment and trust me when I say you will know when I mean, because it is dominating and very loud. So as you can guess the pacing is really slow for roughly the first 40 minutes, but for the rest of the time it actually is lively.

Art and action; the art has to be given high praise for its minimalistic approach [as in clean and tidy;] in its locations and/or scenery constructions, for the action and their presentation; well as always with this franchise they are available and let's put this politely highly detailed, with chaos and stomach breaking/birth.

Character developments and performances; minus a small number the rest of them follow a paint by numbers version of what they are meant to be and the performances reflect that, but for the two newcomers in Rain/Spaeny and/or Andy/Jonsson individually or together they very much are the driving force behind this instalment and put into this where they can grow and develop these characters and the performances of these versions of its characters in possibly/speculation in further film title instalments; if that is what they are doing here; there is potentially more to come from these individuals/partnership; it just depends if they are going with it or not?

This film receives: 7/10, this film is good; yes this instalment clearly has problems based on my opinion, but once it gets going and minus the closing stages; this instalment is comfortably in this section of my marking system, I was going to give it another higher mark, but after taking everything into consideration, it was hard to justify it; basically when it is good; it is good as in it looks and feels like an Alien instalment, but when it isn't so good; it just isn't so good yes it may look highly engaging, but there needs to be a little bit more substance/meat with the gravy; instead of just the gravy. This film has also got 1 Nominee award accredited to its name as of this content being first created anyway; Astra Midseason Movie Awards 2024 Astra Midseason Award Most Anticipated Movie