Fede Alvarez directs Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson and Isabela Merced in this sci-fi franchise horror entry where a group of scavengers pick the wrong derelict lab to steal their cryochambers from.

Pretty much a straight remake of Don’t Breathe but in Weyland-Yutani drag. The FX are pleasingly gloopy and clunky. The facehuggers get maximum screentime. There is a fresh set piece involving splooges of zero gravity acid blood. And as a massive die hard fan of the series I left the multiplex sated. It will just about do if you ignore the high bar. Jonsson is the only member of the ensemble who isn’t bland and thinly sketched. I’m used to my expendable crew being a lot more lived in and quirky than this. And that resurrection of a legacy character is ill advised. Qualms aside this will join my mid tier rotation of entertaining respins of familiar wheels. (See also Predators, Spectre, Live Free And Die Hard et al).

Perfect Double Bill: Alien Resurrection (1997)

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