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‘Alien: Romulus’ Wants to Be All the ‘Alien’ Movies at Once

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Summary
Nutrition label

58% Informative

The film is set between Alien and Aliens , but gathers in elements from 1986 's Aliens , 2012 's Prometheus , and 2017 's Alien: Covenant.

Fede Álvarez’s film is handsomely mounted and propulsively grim, another Alien misery about people stuck in an impossible, surely fatal situation.

Romulus is also more interested in action than was its 45-year-old parent.

A gravity device introduced early on is satisfyingly employed two acts later.

The awe and desolation of outer space’s howling enormity is well conjured.

One does wonder, though, how many more times we can watch this same chain of events play out.

An irony, perhaps, when so much of the argument of Romulus is that seeking a higher form through dangerous experimentation will lead to ruin.

VR Score

58

Informative language

57

Neutral language

32

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

53

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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no external sources

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