Alien: Romulus

Film details

Film TitleAlien: Romulus
Suitability
Genre
Length119mins
Year2024
CountryUnited States of America
DirectorFede Álvarez
ActorsCailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu, Rosie Ede, Soma Simon, Bence Okeke, Viktor Orizu, Robert Bobroczkyi, Trevor Newlin, Annemarie Griggs
LanguageEnglish
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While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. It’s like a greatest hits of Alien 1-4 which also works well as a stand-alone horror.

Alien: Romulus plays the hits, but crucially remembers the ingredients for what makes a good Alien film, and executes them with stunning craft and care. It is, officially, the third-best film in the series.

It’s taken a while — 45 years, four sequels and two spin-off films — but finally they’ve got it right. An Alien movie worthy of the mood, originality and template established by Ridley Scott in 1979.