ALIEN: Romulus (2024) Review

Non Spoiler review of Alien: Romulus.

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[PetersPianoShoppe]

"You get invested in their journey and don't want them to die."

I wanted all but two characters in this film to die horribly.

[TinHatCat]

The production design was top notch. I enjoyed the heist set-up and Andy was a great character. I didn't like the Deepfake CGI and felt there were too many lines and scenes lifted from the other films. Less fan service would have been preferred.

[JimElford]

It wouldve made more sense if WeYu realised the station had fallen, and a crew to dock, investigate and recover the valuable data.

[Leahcimmichael]

The first 45 minutes were fantastic, great set design but the CGI deepfake really soured the film. Kudos to David Jonsson for Andy's portrayal, he was fantastic

[Hugovika]

Andy stole the show!! best character by far

[fattyfranz]

I literally just realized that Romulus is just a Scooby Doo episode. You've got a gang of kids going into a spooky location, along with their talking pet.

[TheKizly]

1rst hour was great then it lost me when it became Alien Fan Service land despite some cool scenes.

[HughMann-cgdy]

The RedLetterMedia review of this film is the only genuinely accurate review I've seen. The first 30 minutes are amazing but then the plot becomes utterly terrible.

I'm really shocked you liked it so much, this was like watching Mark Kermode talking about how amazing the Twilight films are.

[richanthon]

I couldn’t get past the fact that this space station is just sitting there and the company lets a group of teenagers find it before they do 🤣🤷‍♂️

[Sliider]

hot take, Romulus isnt bad. i enjoyed it.

fourth best in the ip, after the original trilogy.
excellent atmosphere & environments. creepy and disturbing at times. the ending went off the rails a bit, sure. but it did alot of things right. its better than the slop we've been getting.

[gautampressman]

Oliver's presentation style make it sound as though it's a show from the 90s. It's a nice contrast to watch a review of a new Alien movie given the series originated in the late 1970s

[patricorno]

Disney-fied, in the sense that it is a film filled with call backs that play on our nostalgia rather than serve the story or explore anything new. Movie looks great, and setup with the mining planet great, but ultimately it just becomes a weird checking off of reference scenes (get off her you b*tch, underwear scene, finding the nest scene, human hybrid scene, airlock scene).

While Prometheus and covenant are messy af, with bad scrips, at least they tried something new.

[walter_the_wobot]

The reviews are all over the place with this movie. Some people accuse it of being a nostalgia play for the clapping seals. Others criticise the ending. Some say that the characters are so unlikeable that you want the Alien to kill them all off, others say that the movie does nothing new and is like a coverband.

[singaporeghostclub]

“Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?”

Anyway, after Alien Romulus, can’t wait for Alien: Biggus Dickus.

[OdinAesthetic]

I enjoyed it, but I understand people who think it's crap.

I have a positive bias to see things I like in aliens and predator movies. Also: I usually expect garbage, so my standards have dropped to qualify something as "good."

Callbacks were horrible, disrespectful.

[Bratts_Bin]

I had no idea what to expect going in, but I really dug this film. Feels like a type of movie that we just haven't seen in a long ass time. Almost feels like a film that was made in the 90s. Despite some issues, overall the film delivered for me. The attention to world building, practical FX, and empathetic characters, it all went a long way in making me dig this entry as much as I did.

[robcain]

I thought Romulus was decent, very well produced and it got all the important bits right. Fede and company were keen to please the fans.

But it did need more fresh ideas (the zero-gravity sequence was pretty cool) as it does go over many familiar beats across the franchise. I wasn't fully invested in the characters either despite a reasonable script.

The film may also be compared to Prey which I feel did a much better job of reinvigorating its series.

[MrBryn]

I liked it overall, but it would have been a lot better if it didn't devolve into memberberry fan service in the third act.
Luckily, the final act was fantastically gross and weird, so it won me back.
It was however extremely well made on a technical level.

[stateazure]

I expected this would be a typical Alvarez take on an Alien film, and so I expected it to be only good/mediocre, but probably fun. with forgettable characters..we got that, mostly.. but it unfortunately got way worse than that due to Ridley's interference/forced Prometheus garbage. Be warned: if you disliked Alien: Resurrection end scene as much as most people, you're going to hate this. The trailer was much, much better, and you get the sense you're going to see some awesome xenomorph action and kills etc...well, no, you get Aliens style weak/bug xenomorphs, with only one kill iirc...even Scorched, the main xenomorph doesn't get a direct kill, and even saves one of the characters (lol). 6/10 for me from a huge Alien fan, and I'm being generous..I expect as time goes on I'll rate it much lower. Alien 3 is a better movie.

[Germaniac]

Visually the movie is great. The set-up (a scoob-doo gang raids an abandoned place) is the same as "Don´t breathe". The ending is the same as Covenant ansd Resurrection. Facehuggers are dumbed-down and ineffective. Movie is like "The Force Awakens" with an overload of "Memberberries", plot-conveniences and stuff to nitpick. Overall just "a mixed bag".