Alien Romulus is NOT As Good As The Critics Are Telling You!

Alien Romulus is the new Alien movie directed by Fede Alvarez, director of Don’t Breath and the gory Evil Dead remake. I went into the film pretty much blind, aside from annoyingly knowing one spoiler that happens near the end, but aside from that I was cautiously optimistic, given that I’m a huge fan of the franchise. This review will talk about plot elements but no major spoilers regarding deaths and whatnot.

Ridley Scott’s ambitious but wayward vision with Prometheus and Alien Covenant, attempting to link what should have been a remote alien terror in deep space with the origin of human life all sorts of cooky stuff that should have been left to a different sci-fi project, has not altogether been discarded. I had to correct myself there, because the easiest way to describe Alien Romulus is that it’s a stand alone Alien movie that goes back to the stuck in a haunted house with a ghost nature of the original film, it’s Don’t Breath in space, but then you remember that the movie does actually include elements from Ridley’s new movies. Almost all the Alien movies in fact.

I enjoyed this film. I thought it solid. A 7/10. I don’t think I’d watch it again though. Alien and Aliens are of course the runaway winners of the franchise, everything else is a matter of taste. It’s a very simple premise – a group of young workers on a moon planet are fed up with being screwed over by Welyand Yutani, and seek to escape a diseased life working in the mines, so they decide to steal cryo chambers from a decommissioned company ship floating around nearby, but of course, when they arrive at the ship all hell breaks loose.

[awakenedsoul]

It a combination of sad and pathetic that those born in the 2000's like to chip around like this is a great film while ironically being clueless to what a great movie is because much like experiencing true greatness and having two parents...most have never experienced neither.

[barricade]

It’s well made and the aesthetic is fantastic and a brilliant hark back to the original.
The characters are a letdown, they acted great but they just weren’t anything other than fodder.
The alien acted strangely too, and some weird contrivances.
The bit where Rayne leaves Andy and goes back down to him was daft, there were tonnes of aliens and then suddenly there were none. That irked me.
The Offspring was cool although I don’t like Prometheus. But baring it in mind I can accept it.
I’d give it a solid 7/10.

Alien - 10/10
Aliens 9/10
Alien 3 8/10
Alien Romulus 7/10
Alien resurrection 6/10
Prometheus 5/10
Covenant 4/10

[eddioritz]

I’m so disappointed 😂😂😂 it’s was absolutely disastrous mates.!!!! I’m glad some of you guys liked it 😂😂😂😂

[christineduncan]

For those expecting a David story continuation do you prefer Kleenex or puffs 🤧?

[ZacharyTodd-px]

Your right. It isn't as good as the critics are telling you.

ITS WAY FUCKING BETTER.

[OhtaniHeaven]

The actors were like kids pretending to be adults

[camillastenhede]

I was so dissapointed. My heartrate was the same during the whole film. No special characters, boring story and no mystery horror🙁 i really thought better about this since it have good reviews. Aliens is still my favourite in the franchise! And Prometheus was good as well, enjoyed the story about the engineers. It gave the franchise more depth.

[JurassicRod]

It was ok as a generic alien adventure romp but does nothing original. Just a greatest hits rehash of elements from all the other films. Much like Prey it's really over rated. Maybe because we've had so much trash from Hollywood the last 5-10 years people now find what would have been considered an ok movie amazing.

[memedealermikey]

You know, I quite liked it. But you echoed my thoughts perfectly. And I’m not even that big an alien fan, so I had a pretty fresh perspective on this film as i haven’t seen the alien films in a few years at least.

[ENGLANDmistaT]

It was as good if not better for me. Loved it ! Especially on a huge IMAX screen. Nothing will ever come close to 1 and 2 but this was still a great movie for me and my mate.

[billygrady]

It was wildly disappointing. Vastly. (coughing Blomkamp) Maybe I got too excited but there was not enough story or pulp in it. Say what you want about Ridley’s later works but at least he went balls out with all of it. This was just a Disney tour of the franchise with no new story or even violence. It’s a film about an apex predator who is also an Alien. From the director of don’t breathe and the most recent evil dead I expected at least something. I put this behind Prometheus, Alien 3 and Covenant. I’m happy I went to watch it in the cinema but boy it was not great. A dream of Blomkamp perhaps?

[winstonwolfwhiteshoes]

i felt the same as you. played too safe. almost boring. hardly any xenos...

[angelhernandezrivera]

I could not disagree more. I really enjoyed it and thought it was great!

[sohux]

I don't see anyone saying its very good, so I'm not really sure why this title.

[jeremipaw]

its a good movie, maybe a bit too much fan service that breaks immersion but still original

[sodem]

I thought it was a blast with a couple of cringe moments that didn’t spoil my enjoyment of the film.

[TheGhostOfJohnWicksBeagle]

Glad that some liked but it just seemed like a greatest hits album with that shitty new single that I don’t need because I have all the albums.

[tezzingtonsir]

Lost me on this one bro. It was a very solid movie.

[jdsallows]

I'm glad to know that someone else agrees that taking the worst, most diappoonting thing from all four core movies, and using it AGAIN was awful. I walked out of the theater, looked at my wife, and was like "are they serious right now?!"

[aidan]

It’s videos like these that are SO thankful that YouTube removed the dislike button lmfao