IT has been almost 40 years but there is finally a good Alien film that reaches the heights of the first two titles in the franchise by taking what worked well in these movies and in some instances, Alien: Romulus even elevates them.
Directed by Fede Alvarez, Romulus is the first film structured around a fully developed emotional core and one that is vehemently anti-corporation in its blue-collar themes.
Set after the events of the first Alien, Romulus focuses on Rain (Cailee Spaeny) and her brother Andy (David Jonsson).
Forced into the servitude of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation on a colonial outpost in space, Rain dreams of escaping the planet’s ravaged environment and increasing number of plagues to Yvalga, a planet not under the control of the company.
After Tyler (Archie Renaux) and his salvage crew discover an abandoned space station with the equipment necessary for space travel to reach Yvalga, Rain and Andy join them on their escape mission.
The group not-so-quickly find out that the vessel is not abandoned as initially believed.
