I caught a late night showing of this one. Although I enjoyed the late night vibe at the cinema I'm afraid the film was a rollercoaster of disappointment.
I went in with extremely low expectations but by 30 minutes into the film I was very impressed. Strong cinematography, solid acting, great production design, an interesting setup. But around the time the first alien shows up, the film completely s***s the bed and becomes nothing more than a greatest hits compilation of every previous Alien film... including quoting lines from previous films verbatim and callbacks to some low points in the franchise I think most would rather forget.
I came out of the cinema and I felt such a strong sense of "What a pity. What a terrible pity." There was a lot of talent behind
Alien: Romulus, they even made it on a sensible budget; they just didn't have a script worth a damn.
And btw, Hollywood's been skimming DreamLyrics again.
The basic premise is a salvage crew boards an adrift research ship that's on a collision course with the ring system around a planet. Identical premise to the Alien game I ran here, INS.
