My review (thread):
Amazing production design, special effects, music, decent cinematography and some riskier choices don’t make up for agonizingly slow pacing, thin writing and just okay characters. Ripley and Ash are decent, everyone else is serviceable at best.
Alien review continued:
Wrapping up editing critiques: Alien is like watching incense burn. It’s a 85-90min concept stretched to be around 2 hours yet it feels like 5 hours. I watched this yesterday and can’t even remember if any jump scares actually worked. How do you mess up jump scares?
Before the midwits come in and say, “omg TikTok brain can’t handle smart slow burn filmmaking and just needs jump scares!” I’m not into jump scare heavy films. In fact, I love slow burn horror like the Witch or LongLegs, or even artsy slow burn horror like Stopmotion or Censor. Horror doesn’t have to “scare me” to intrigue me.
