For years, I firmly believed that there was No bad "alien" movies (I, of course, exclude the terrible films "Alien vs.", which simply do not consider). Ridley Scott's original "Alien" is a scientific horror masterpiece, the plan of so many films that followed. Jameseims' Aliens Cameron's "aliens" is a propulsion mixing of horror, science and brilliant action. David Fincher's "Alien 3" "Alien 3" suffered from production problems But it still manages to be a dark, fascinating movie. Jeanan-Pierre Unnet's "Ventic Resurrection" often gets a bad sheath, but I think it's stylish, weird and cozy. Then you have the two Scott films, "Prometheus" and "Alien: Testament". These also do not have the best reputation, but I claim that both are great - especially the "covenant", which has a killer Gothic horror.

What made all these films valuable was like different They were. Neither two films "Alien" were the same - even "Prometheus" and "The covenant", which tell a permanent story and characterize the same director, feel very different from each other. Hollywood is full of franchises trying to do the same thing over and over, and yet the series "foreign" have been trying to find new ways to keep things fresh. Then all this changed with Federis Elvarez in 2024 "Alien: Romul". That movie was a hit on the box office and won praise among some fans, but left me cold. Being fair, "Romulus" is not very bad movie- But there is nothing new to offer. Like so many modern restarts and revival, Romulu was not interested in introducing new ideas, he just wanted to go a bunch of things that happened in previous films. The film has numerous scenes where the characters repeat lines spoken in other "foreign" films, as if cited films they saw.

Now here comes "Alien: Earth" by Noah Holly, the first "Franchise TV series", boasts impressive production design and not much more. As "Romulul", "Alien: Earth" seems to be hellish to call things that have happened in the movies. The scene of the show's opening itself is more or less recreated by the opening of Scott's first film film, with support results. I've seen the first six episodes of "Alien: Country", and as I fully recognize the show appearance Great (and expensive!), Also ends up to feel like a lifeless slogan that is a chore. Maybe it's time to bring back the series "foreign" to hypersleep for decades.

Set two years before the first "Alien" movie, "Alien: Earth" gets a key detail right: He understands that while monstrous xenomorphs are frightening, Real The villain of any "foreign" story is capitalism. In the future, the show exists, governments no longer exist - they were all replaced by greedy companies. As "Alien: Earth" begins, a ship owned by the Mainstay Weyland-Thani franchise is returning home to Earth after a 65-year mission to return foreign managers, including the-assumption-that boring xenomorphs.

As is usually the case with a "foreign" story, something goes wrong and the ship crashes on the ground. The accident attracts the attention of the extremely disturbing boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin), the young CEO of the Prodigy Corporation, a new company that is before making a great scientific breakthrough: hybrids, robots that have set human consciousness. Prodigy already has a congestion of tests: a group of sick and dying children who had the mind transferred to adult humanoid bodies. The leader of this package (all adopted the names of characters from Peter Pan) is Wendy (Sydney Chandler), who leads the rescue mission to investigate the accident.

Immediately, "Alien: Earth" is on a precarious country. While I'm sure someone, somewhere, thought that the whole idea of "childhood brains in adult bodies" could be fun, becoming a real, realistic fast. Looking at a group of adult actors acting like children, it meets as frustrating and distraction, and until I would say that performers are doing a bad job (especially Chandler has a real quality Starwar), I found the characters. Let's be fair, "foreign" has always been a bit of a Misantropian franchise, where people (or humanoids) are prone to bad decisions, but that doesn't mean I want to see the whole show about it.

To oppose children's adults, "Alien: Earth" also casts a character like Kirsch, a robot (or synthesis, as they are called) played by Timothy Oliphant. Oliphant is one of those always addictive, always released performers, but in the first six episodes, he has very little to do. We get more scenes where he quietly works through TV monitors and keeps what he learns secret. I'm sure it's building on something, but I'm not sure I'm very interested. The only other character to make much of the influence is tomorrow (Babu Ceysay), morally gray cyborg, ready to do what is needed to maintain those foreign specimens. Jaisay brings a real tragic threat to his character, and I wanted more than him and less than everyone else.

Holly and his team are trying to expand the overall mythology of the series by introducing some new species of foreign, besides the famous Xenomorphs, and while the new creatures are adequately gross and slimy (seriously, the slime budget for this show must be through the roof), none of the new monsters can handle.

Not helping things are the fact that "alien: country", like "Romulus", seems to be damn dedicated to reminding us of things from previous films in ways they feel lifeless and uninspired. "Remember how everyone had hairstyles in the 1970s in" foreign "? What if we gave the crew of this ship the same hairstyles? " Becomes tiring.

Perhaps "Alien: Earth" would get better if it were a new, original scientific story that had nothing to do with the "foreign" franchise. As the episodes take place, the series seems to be almost unwilling to give us a lot of xenomorph material, rather than choosing to focus on virtually everything and anything else. Always and then, Xenomorph will appear to remind us that yes, this is a "alien" show, but it feels almost arbitrary.

After all, the biggest sin "Alien: The Earth" stands that it ends as boring. No matter what disadvantages some of the "foreign" sequels have, I don't think anyone could accuse them of being "boring". Even "Romulus", a movie I didn't really want, kept things mostly interesting. "Alien: Earth", in sharp contrast, there is strange walking and overwhelming arrangement that ends as distracting. To be fair, this is a series that should be seen on a weekly basis, rather than engaging all at once, but the energy here is so flat that I imagine spectators could feed and leave the ship early than to stick to the whole mission.

/Movie rating: 5 out of 10

"Alien: Earth" arrives at FX and Julu on August 12, 2025.