Excellent first 20 minutes or so. Excellent final 15 minutes or so. The stuff in between, pretty meh. Soft reboot a la Force Awakens with lame throwbacks.

I dug it.

Alien is my favorite horror movie and deff on my top 5 all time list. Aliens is one of the best sequels ever made. 3 and 4 I don’t hate and need to rewatch as it’s been several years. Covenant and Prometheus were awful as part of the Alien franchise (imo) and probably just mid scifi movies if removed from it (again, imo). I feel like they actually took Alien out of cosmic horror and made it less scary and dulled a lot of the mystery.

Romulus was deff a throw back to the og. There was a lot of call-back and fan service, some of which worked, some not so much. But at the end of the day, it felt like I was back in the Alien universe. It was scary. It was dirty. It was dangerous- not just because the characters were stupid and caused their own deaths.

The aesthetics of the film were perfect and the first face hugger action sequence was fantastic.

Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of Prometheus or Covenant, so I didn’t like the connections to those films. This in turn means I didn’t like the ending with the final monster at all.

What really topped it all off though we’re the constant throw backs to previous films. Really unnecessary and the “bitch” line was just too much.

I think I’m in the minority that really didn’t like it at all. I thought it started well, but then it hit the first wobble with the

Then by the end when

I was like “for fucks sake.”

I don’t know why this has become a thing multiple times with this franchise, but I don’t want

Just do a regular Aliens film!

I loved it, put it well above Prometheus and Covenant. Loved the worldbuilding of the corporate-owned mining planets.

As is tradition, the acting by the android (David Jonsson) was a highlight. I loved the range he got to display across the movie.

Its no Alien 1 or Alien 2 but I had a great time.