Alien Film Review: Romulus, Old Premis With Thrilling Visuals

Still cut Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)

JAKARTA - Alien: Romulus is an update to the Alien film franchise. This film takes the background time between Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) and is directed by Fede Swarez.

Maybe Scott, who directed his first two films, is now sitting on the producer bench. In terms of the story, the film is not related to the two previous films.

Alien: Romulus tells of Rain Carradine (Cailee Spaeny), an orphan who lives in the Jackson's Star, a mining area and has been employed there for years. Rain, who wants to leave, is denied access by Jackson's.

Later, Rain met Tyler (Archie Renaux) who asked Rain to come with him and Kay (Isabela Merced), Bjorn (Spike Fearn), and Navarro (Aileen Wu) who would go looking for treasure on an empty space boat.

Rain was finally interested in joining those who found an abandoned space station but still functioning. They are looking for fuel to smooth their journey so they can survive to their destination.

At first, everything looked fine, until they met the mysterious creatures who were hunting them and scary in front of them. Rain cs now has to make various efforts to fight these creatures.

Alien: Romulus has been full of tension since the beginning of the film. The lack of music increases the intensity of fame from inside the film. We will see the spotlight of the scene that was built without pause and even more surprised by the audience.

Like following Rain cs, his cinematography often places us as the first point of view. So the visuals of creatures like Xenoph are clearly visible.

The tense visuals are combined with booming scoring. At the climax moment, the scoring is very helpful for the development of the film. But it is not uncommon for them to present noiselessly to display the atmosphere of space or tension when the main character is in action.

The main characters also performed their acting well. Cailee Spaeny is getting more and more attention with his latest film this year as well as Archie Renaux and kaburna Merced.

However, among those names, David Jonsson's appearance as Andy is stunning. Andy is a synthetic human programmed for various tasks. Jonsson's expression and facial expression that has a transition is amazing.

With this simple science fiction film premise, Alien: Romulus is able to create tensions from start to finish.

The film Alien: Romulus is showing in Indonesian cinemas starting Wednesday, August 14.