Set between the events of Alien and Aliens, the ninth entry in the franchise (if you’re not discounting those Predator team-ups...) has a decidedly youthful feel, centring as it does on a bunch of young folk from a mining colony who see an opportunity to escape their hardscrabble existence when a derelict Weyland-Yutani station station drifts towards the planet. Unfortunately, what they don’t factor in when they hatch a salvage plan is that there may be numerous xenomorph facehuggers in storage on board...
SFX’s reviewer called it a movie with “a surprisingly big heart”, praising the way the filmmakers “open out the mythology by reconsidering questions that have been nagging at fans for decades”.
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