ALIEN: ROMULUS

Taking place between ALIEN and ALIENS, Rain (Cailee Spaeny) believes she's worked the required hours for her and her "brother" Andy (David Jonsson) to receive travel permits to leave their planet. However, the company she works for has since raised the required number of hours in order to obtain a permit and hers have since doubled, requiring another 5-6 years before she's granted a travel permit (although we're sure at that time, the required hours will be raised yet again, continuing the never ending cycle of her service). While a group of her friends discover a ship hovering above their planet, which turns out to be a space station, abandoned with fuel to get her to her desired planet (a 9 year journey), she agrees to flee her planet in order to secure her freedom. Once aboard the space station, they soon must fight for their lives against the Xenomorph. For some reason, I had a hard time getting into this from the start. It seemed to drag longer than it should have and while I'm not a huge fan of the ALIEN franchise, I had somewhat high expectations going in to this as I'd heard good things about it and I'm a big fan of Cailee Spaeny. Unfortunately, I just never connected with the film and it wasn't my cup of tea. Not as much action as I was hoping for and Cailee didn't deliver for me in a Ridley-esque type role. 5.5/10