Alien: Romulus (2024) Film Review

Ridley Scott gave his baby new life with the premise of Prometheus, massively expanding the context of the whole Alien universe, then promptly killed it dead with Covenant abandoning that story entirely. This new film has been hailed as an excitingly fresh rebirth, but I don't see it. The production design is superb, but other than the lead, the acting is pretty dire. The biggest problem though, is with how unambitious the story is, at this late stage, going all the way back to the being hunted on a spaceship story of the first film, which has been done a million times since.