Movie review: ‘Underwater’ plays homage to ‘Alien’ with similar roles, plot but diffe

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Movie review: ‘Underwater’ plays homage to ‘Alien’ with similar roles, plot but different setting

01-09-2020 01:21 PM

The opening shot of “Underwater” roves around the empty, industrial passageways of some kind of transport vessel, its walls creaking. Motivated by an unknown force, the camera’s pan ultimately lands on Norah (Kristen Stewart), who has cropped bleached hair and a mouthful of toothpaste, clad in her skivvies. Immediately the audience recognizes this will be Stewart’s “Ripley moment,” paying homage to Sigourney Weaver’s iconic role in Ridley Scott’s “Alien” (but at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, rather than in outer space).


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