ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)
Watching prequels and sequels, especially when they're often another 'soft reboot' type affair, feels like a sort of Groundhog Day scenario these days. Nobody wants to do anything creative to avoid commercial disappointment and the results are all too often a case of Déjà vu. Remember the pulse rifle? Remember the Company? Remember dead actors now being portrayed by nightmarish deepfake technology? So despite the mythological images conjured up by the title this is more Alien: Reheated rather than anything deeper. It might look and sound pretty good but the surface level window dressing hides another hollow and mostly recycled effort.
