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Lukaschik Gleb

Review derails in double. Alien: Romulus and Gunner.

Oh, man…

 

Alien: Romulus – 50 minutes.

 

The last time when I saw anything with xenomorph in theater was Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. I used to watch films there by eating and drinking something back then. I had in that visiting a bottle of low-alcohol pink cocktail (yeah, I was a bad guy.). A film turned out delirious in script and kept to that till conclusion. It was of regrets in wasting of the wonderful ideas. But more worst will in future. Alien vs. Predator: Requiem had basics from which could make a nice script and an acceptable moment was that one character had look of Ellen Ripley, but directors didn’t make with her a copy-paste into leading persona and action hero.

 

Then Ridley Scott returned who made a one-hit wonder in his filmography which is Alien (and Apple’s 1984 commercial in speaking on everything.). Lately, he offended whole France by resenting that French people don’t like his pseudo-historical narrating on Napoleon. Since that, I ceased to take any seriousness and attention to this far-left radical and boor, he ended for me. But let me return to past. He made Prometheus which I did not see as winning by that do flick on humanoid which Nostromo crew saw wasn’t tantalizing as idea for me and take set before of original film will bring chaos to chronology. Moreover, Scott hired writers of show Lost which can’t tell story, because their approach is throwing riddles on which answers they don’t know and when they decide to disclosure – it always was a confusing delirium. These guys were supposed to learn from Arthur Conan Doyle who in writing of Sherlock Holmes story began with answer and then he thought how to make a mystery from it. One more misfire of Scott is repeating in making of Ripley-kind personage which in both his contemporary installments. Personally, I didn’t like that he rejected events of Alien vs. Predator by creating his uninteresting Weyland while idea and personality of Lance Henriksen is astonishing and movie’s director didn’t make illogical with presence of aliens and predators on Earth. Fortunately, Scott’s second film in assuming trilogy had face in pie box-office and mankind felt better that a threequel didn’t realize.

 

Now we have Fede Alvarez who always in collaboration with same unspecial Rodo Sayagues created only top tier dreadful movies. Attachment to production and disgust of presence of political correct cast equally having three men and three women as respective to communism though I am supposed to doubt in modern transchanging world (and I did because I perceived Asian for male but a movie and her name on IMDb informed me on vice versa.) though I didn’t care as always.

 

Well, political correct cast reached equity by demonstration of disastrous acting. They weren’t alive. Nobody of them could express a feeling and any state of character. I wouldn’t surprise if all these beings are actually androids. But IMDb informed me it is not what was quite shocking. Such performance was pandemically everywhere. I wanted to tear up a face as Arnie’s Douglas Quaid does in Total Recall because that guy who took digital guise of Ian Holm exposes fakeness. He has no personality which Sir Ian had. Some time in a past, I looked on promotional photo of cast of Alien and came to sadness by that many of them aren’t here. And a big part of them weren’t so old people.

Back to cast which look as teenagers and that’s not a compliment. They speak bizarre dialogs and same happens in interactions between characters. I do not see logic in happening conflicts. Confusing of flick was in that one hero was an android with behavior of unmatured person. I do not see a point to develop such machine? We have robots today and no one of them has alike manners. A goal of machine is help people. Anyway, Alien: Romulus without fantasy in technologies by having a flashcard alike which insert into android for reprogramming and reading data. Beautiful in presenting of technologies from films of twenties century, it was when the inventive people made cinema.

I watched on lousy performance and wished appearance of adults. It was kind of flicks when you desire death to personages. But watching was without getting any sense and that’s not because I’m a heartless and cynical alcoholic. The facehuggers run and I was in careless serenity in which I was close to reach nirvana. However, the political correct cast was in same state as me. Alvarez’s approach was in surprise as sudden lightening of premise or reprogramming of android who activates in unexpected grabbing of facehugger. Never liked such unimpressive methods which nowadays cinema still using. Director always staged in horror, which he never could make. Even inappropriate flick of The Brothers Strause convinces in danger every time. Facehuggers always attacked and put seed, but they haven’t this attitude in Alien: Romulus. Most of them have a playful behavior in only jumping as it would be your pet. That film wasn’t serious in beginning as it has an episode of one personage inhales whole cigarette when lifts into space and he hasn’t real consequences in frequent and loud coughing. Wet facehugger makes hop on mug of one of I-don’t-care personages while other hero comes and uses taser on creature. Does anybody know that electricity transfers? And fly far back by that neutralizing device is precisely describes flick’s gravity.

 

A film reveals a known before truth. You can’t take action in between of Alien and Aliens, because it will create confusion with chronology. It wasn’t a first time as computer game Alien: Isolation did that with using of Ripley’s daughter. Weyland-Yutani has involvement in this electronic composition, Scott’s last two movies and Alvarez’s picture joined. Nostromo and it’s crew were considered as disappeared in Aliens and Ripley was found by accident while Alien: Romulus detected places of exploded ship, had incredible luck with a xenomorph and it’s known that Ripley is one survived from where arises question “why didn’t company start searching of her?” I swapped on Aliens which corporation’s representative reports on “no physical creature” and nobody believes in Ellen’s claiming on eggs on planet on which corporation built colony with no mind of presence of other life form. Ridley Scott was “pissed” and “deeply hurt” as he said about don’t getting call to stage a sequel. Let take for assumption, producer Scott wanted to build own Alien series as that only his film exist, but he approved to do confusion with a film which he directed anyway.

 

As expected, we have a Ripley-type heroine in another n-time. Perhaps, the worst ever. And alien is playful son of bitch too. Alvarez is not big original by stealing scenes and phrases from classic tetralogy.

 

That Asian becomes a facehugger’s victim. She in that condition hits a leverage which far from cockpit and senselessly situates on a ground causes forward movement of a ship. That character isn’t alone. Some Latino girl presents but she prefers to do unconvincing screaming instead to stop transport which will make collisions with a big one. It was a place when action started and I said to myself “You know, Bruno. It looks a terrible comes.” “Yes, you’re right”, I answered to myself and did shut down with whole watching. It didn’t become better in clicking. Alvarez still talentless in horror and acts of heroes with no reasonable explanation.

 

Alien: Romulus doesn’t add anything for series except it’s another a god-awful’n’terrible installment. Alien flicks were monumental when Walter Hill and David Giler decides. Giler passed away while Hill’s presence in producers is nominal. However in any case, never buy a low-alcohol pink cocktail.

 

 

Gunner – 10 minutes.

 

I stumbled on it in a list on new released films. No website told on production or did presentation of a trailer. But I knew on a movie before because a memory data of visiting pages of browser informed on coming on IMDb page what obviously was by checking Morgan Freeman’s filmography. I watched trailer and Gunner hadn’t look of common low-budget film by seeing video. I learnt that a scriptwriter is Gary Scott Thompson, he was used to write for silver screen pictures and there were good ones.

 

It wasn’t well as trailer. An ordinary tasteless a low-budget staging from intro. Dimitri Logothetis isn’t a monumental director. He put more unbearable by including a cheap CGI in city’s title seemed as a part of road. A plot is without wish to stand out. It makes to assume it was work of AI than a human. Thompson’s involvement is no more than hire job because he has skills in writing for films. No different to call plumber for clean sink. The first scenes begin with news reporting on personality of a main personage, an episode made for presentation of protagonist what could be made an elaborated and a realistic. Of course, a main hero turns off a TV set. Following to that comes what typically happens when set takes in a bar – a fight. And this one was exaggerated and this scene was for standard demonstration of lead character’s toughness. A rumble was edited greater in trailer but acceptable in the film. Acting is wonderful (Morgan Freeman gave to play his experience in little as I say on seen but he worked his money.) and correct using of sound effects in what involved people in Alien: Romulus weren’t capable. A meeting after combat of lead character with unnatural behaving police officers, in which guilt of dialogs, who say a very known on that we don’t need troubles in our town despite these thugs did life-threatening acts (perhaps, action takes set in a blue state.). I’ve got that it will a uniform generic composition. Therefore I ended. I did a couple clicking and heard one more familiar phrase about providing of twenty-four hours.

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