It only helps that Dark Descent so ably captures the look and tone of the Alien films.
Good, clean genre entertainment, the sort of harmless yet endearing brand of moviemaking seemingly unattainable in today’s Hollywood system.
As far as high concepts go, it’s a great one.
Monstrosity, terror, and horror all correspond in some way to chaos in its old-fashioned sense and with chaos in its scientific sense.
Beyond being asinine and unwittingly cryptic, the film is also a slice of unintentional sleaze.
Enemies resemble jerky marionettes tossed at your face and the neat addition of the motion tracker from Aliens adds little pressure to the proceedings when the level designs are extremely linear.
The highly subjective task of compiling a list of the 10 best films of all time is nearly as daunting as the thought that plagues every film completist.
Critics get a bad wrap for being “out of touch” with the masses, but Tomatometer listings indicate that critics have been surprisingly forgiving of superhero fare.
These famous fights to the death should, together, sate even the bloodthirstiest film fans.
The film sings an ultimately joyful song.
So, curses to you, once again, robots!
The beauty of sci-fi is that you can always hope for improvements in the future—to technology, society, equality.
My Mom is a larger than life character crafted with one part June Cleaver, two parts Mahalia Jackson, three parts Oprah, and four parts Dorothy Parker.
The film’s human melodramas play second fiddle to the kick-ass action sequences.