I watched this in my quest to watch every Oscar nominated movie this year--and I have to say that while the Visual Effects category is almost always filled with movies that I would not otherwise watch, that is the whole point of the undertaking, to stretch yourself with a list that has been curated by people who really care about this stuff and then try to see what it is that made them choose each one. Sometimes--not this time, but sometimes I find a real gem, and so the quest continues.
One review I read started off with: "An amazing addition to the Alien universe." This is one clue as to why this did not resonate with me, because my knee jerk thought is "What Alien universe?" So clearly I do not get it. My first thought as the movie got underway was that this is the third horror movie I had watched in the 2025 Oscar watch party. A personal high, I think, and not a genre that I like either. My spouse and one of my kids watched The Substance without me
and my offspring noted "Mom is *not* going to want to watch this." Right on brand for me--this one was kind of an action adventure horror movie, and I will say that the actors gave it their all. The movie delivers a gritty experience reminiscent of the original film, with impressive world-building and and majorly creepy villians that make its nomination in this category well-deserved.
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