Alien: Romulus – this film floats like a giant piece of astro-junk
After seven chapters, the series is floating like a gigantic piece of astro-junk, cluttered with the bodies of dead characters and fossilised storylines.
The signature conceit of the Alien franchise is back: a vulnerable young woman fleeing monsters, and aggressively fighting back. AP
Ridley Scott’s Alien of 1979, was a groundbreaking – or rather space-breaking – sci-fi horror flick that made an indelible mark on cinema history.
It was seven years before a sequel arrived, partly because science fiction writer A.E. van Vogt claimed the filmmakers had ripped off his novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950). A lawsuit was settled out of court, and James Cameron would write and direct Aliens (1986), which was almost as well received as the original film.
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