Romulus had a perfectly timed countdown to the end and I loved it

I loved Alien: Romulus‘ End, especially thanks to the perfectly timed countdown that director Fede Álvarez included. There is always some expectation about a Alien The third act of the movie and what happens, with a final confrontation between the humans and xenomorphs almost always come. This typically comes after the list of human characters decreases as more characters die, signaling to audiences when the finale is approaching. The same methodology certainly applies to Alien: Romulus‘ End and the signs that the final part of the story is approaching, but the movie also has a much bigger signal.

Alien: Romulus Tell us early that the group’s time on the Renaissance space station is limited and decreasing quickly. This comes through the revelation that The space station is on a collision course with the rings around LV-410. Alien: Romulus The tease pays off when the space station is completely destroyed as it crawls across the rings during the third act, along with killing the xenomorph offspring. Although it’s a small detail, the movie does an incredible job of counting down to the moment of destruction thanks to a perfectly timed piece of filmmaking.

Alien: Romulus’ countdown clock to the space station crash is perfectly timed

The warnings are accurate

There is an incredible level of attention to detail in this Alien: Romulus By its countdown clock to the space station crash. The automated system of the Renaissance Gives warnings throughout the second and third acts of the movie that time is running out. There are warnings when the crash is 40 minutes away, 30 minutes away, 20 minutes away, and 10 minutes away. The precision of the messages related to the countdown clock is perfect, as they occur exactly at every 10-minute interval to provide a real-time update to when the crash will occur.

It may seem silly to some degree, but I love it when movies pay attention to details like this. Nothing is quite as annoying as a movie that tells us that something will happen at a certain time, and it actually happens in a much shorter or longer amount. It’s typically the result of a movie that doesn’t have the time to tell the story in real-time and condenses the events into a shorter period of time. I fully expected it Alien: Romulus To do this, too, until I realized that the countdown clock is perfectly timed with the runtime and story of the movie.

Alien: Romulus’ exact countdown clock made me love the ending even more

It would be easy for Alien: Romulus To ignore the real-time element of the countdown clock and the space station crash occurs faster than promised. But I loved the ending even more, knowing that it was all happening in real time. It’s a great way to build tension and Give weight to every second or minute of what the characters are doing. There is no wiggle room for them or the movie’s editing so that the space station crash occurs exactly when it was previously stated to.

The accurate countdown clock is also another sign of how carefully constructed Alien: Romulus is and how detail-oriented Álvarez was in creating it. The movie didn’t need an exact countdown to the space station crash. There was another element added to it Raise the stakes and raise the tension as time runs out. And once I realized Alien: Romulus It was doing that with his countdown clock, it only became more clear to me how much I admired everything Álvarez tried in the end.