Starring: Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story: Sci-fi horror sequel co-written and directed by Fede Álvarez. Set between the events of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), Alien: Romulus (2024) centers on a group of young space colonizers, who while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
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Top Chestbursting and Tense Alien: Romulus Quotes
Andy: Did you hear about the claustrophobic astronaut? He needed space.
Rain: You want to break into a Weyland-Yutani ship and steal highly regulated equipment?
Kay: Before someone else does.
Rain: You guys are insane.
Bjorn: Well, of course we are.
Rain: [referring to Andy] I’m not sending my brother up there alone.
Bjorn: He’s not your brother though, is he?
Tyler: Take a good look outside the window because the way I see it, we’re never coming back.
Rain: Are you sure you want to do this?
Andy: I have just one directive. To do what’s best for Rain.
Rain: Synthetics can’t harm humans.
Navarro: It sacrificed three miners to save a dozen. That, they can do.4
Bjorn: This place gives me the creeps.
Bjorn: It’s a non-Weyland-Yutani system, so no fake people allowed.
Andy: I prefer the term “artificial person” myself.
Andy: [referring to Navarro] Based on the rhythmic dilatation of those bladders, and its synchronization to her breathing patterns, I’d surmise it’s feeding her oxygen to keep her alive. For what purpose, I do not know.
Rain: [referring to Navarro] Can you tell us what we can do to help her?
Rook: You don’t help her. You run. Get out, however you got in.
Rook: Have mercy and end her life now. If not, you all die.
Tyler: What’s going to grow out of her?
Rook: XX121 Xenomorph.
Rook: Lack of oxygen and food is of no true consequence to this perfect organism.
Andy: Yet nothing is truly immortal. Clearly.
Rook: It wreaked havoc over this station, until what was left of our security forces shot it dead. Only to trigger its swan song.
Andy: Acid for blood?
Rook: Sulfuric and hydrofluoric.
Rook: Humans go through too many emotional stages before accepting the cold, yet rational, sometimes hardest, path.
Andy: [to Rain] Forgive me. I’ve been nothing but a burden to you. Today, I can finally help. And you won’t see me as a child anymore.
Tyler: This is all my fault.
Rain: Yeah, it is. Yours, mine, and everyone else’s. We all decided to do this together.
Rain: [referring to Tyler] You almost closed the door on him.
Andy: Yes, but I didn’t. I calculated the timing perfectly with more success than last time. Won’t you agree?
Andy: [referring to Kay] I’m truly sorry. There was nothing I could have done to save her.
Tyler: You could have opened the f***ing door!
Andy: We’d all be dead if I had.
Rain: Andy, what’s your prime directive?
Andy: I’m afraid I have a new directive. To do what’s best for the company.
Rain: How could you do that?
Andy: What? Leave someone behind?
Tyler: The f***ing thing’s hunting us.
Andy: Right. New plan. Can you manage yourself with a gun?
Tyler: Yes, I f***ing can.
Andy: We’re on the bottom floor of the station. Below our feet is the vacuum of space. You shoot that creature, and it’s a guaranteed instant decompression. And we all die.
Rain: [to Andy] You’ll die in here, and that’s not in the best interest of the company or mine.
Rook: I can’t lie about your chances, but you have my sympathies.
Rain: Andy, can you tell me one of your jokes?
Andy: Why don’t monsters eat clowns? Because they taste funny.
Andy: Get away from her. You b**ch.
Rain: Andy, I have a new directive for you. Do what’s best for us.
Andy: Done
Rain: Die, m*****f***er!
Rain: [to Andy] I’ll fix you.
Rain: This is the cryo-log for the mining hauler Corbelan. I set course to the Yvaga system without knowing if I’ll ever reach it, or what fate is to find me. But whatever comes, I’ll face it. This is Rain Carradine, last survivor of the Corbelan, signing off.