This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.”
So very happy to have revisited this on the biggest of screens with the best sound system in NYC last night. Well, I mean as “happy” as one can be while watching this unrelentingly dank and grimy 90s classic uncomfortably unfold like a flower infested with fly larvae.
Sorry. It’s hard to shake the mood after seeing this thing.
Perfectly…
One of those rare times where a sequel that nobody asked for to a decades-old cult classic nails it. And I think it's because everyone understood the assignment, which was to the tune of "let's have a good time and not treat the source material like a holy relic."
Seriously, I don't think Tim Burton has made something this wacky, irreverent, and fun since Mars Attacks.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Yeah, sure- Romulus is a pretty good Alien movie. People are throwing around the phrase “the best one since Aliens,” and I guess I’m on board with that, even if that’s not necessarily the highest bar (that bar being everything that came after Aliens, obviously, because that movie is a masterpiece).
Romulus is pretty boilerplate, honestly. It doesn’t lack for action, but it’s rarely done in a way that’s wholly original. It’s not very scary, but have any of these…
A wholly serviceable, perfectly comprehensible, gloriously ridiculous bit of light entertainment with a visual flair and a unique style that we’ve come to expect from Matthew Vaughn. It’s a little long- some scenes meander about with uneccessary, repetitive exposition, and the aforementioned style is a little scattershot and underused- there are long stretches, by design, I think (as the movie’s two worlds take time to sync up), that make the shifts to hyper-fantastical action a bit awkward, but everything eventually…
