Director- Fede Alvarez
Cast- Cailee Spaney, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu
Release Date- August 16, 2024
Prometheus had an excellent cast, but overall the movie was weirdly too preachy and overly pretentious. Covenant was forgettable, so I always have a hard time feeling any real excitement for an Alien film. A good friend made a comparison for the Alien and Terminator franchises a while back. Alien and Terminator eerily share a familiar pattern. The first two films in both series are iconic, bonafide classics. Everything after that ranges from solid to mediocre for quality, with a few memorable moments and scenes, but nothing ever comes close to the early stages of either franchise.
The Alien VS Predator films never lived up to the hype. AVP 2004 was too tamed and dull, and while Requiem compensated for the lack of gore and brutal violence in the 2004 film, Requiem still had its own problems.
In a perfect world, I still believe Alien 3 could’ve been the definitive finale for the series. It just made too much sense for Ripley to be the one to sacrifice herself, finally putting an end to the madness.
I’ll always have my doubts, but Romulus’ first trailer looks good. Romulus truly looks and feels like an Alien film so far, and saving the only appearance from a Xenomorph for the last shot of the trailer was a nice touch. Don’t Breathe was fantastic. Evil Dead 2013 is a top three Evil Dead film, so Fede Alvarez is a great choice for a director.
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