Alien: Romulus

Crafting a thriller that is tense and taut, Álvarez truly understands what makes an Alien movie breathe, while also expanding on the mythology of the series.

Bloated by two or three elements too many, it isn't a "perfect organism", to use the phrase coined by Ian Holm's android character in Alien, but it's as close to perfect as any entry in the series since Aliens in 1986.

The movie doesn’t quite stick the landing, piling on while lingering at the gate for an extra 10 minutes or so. The gore level may not be a shock to fans of Alvarez’s previous features, but for the casual franchise fan, well, it’s gory. But the best of Alien: Romulus reminds us that some franchises are more open to a variety of directorial approaches than others.

A final-act development lurches into overblown and slightly daffy extreme sicko horror, but there’s enough that works, especially in terms of sustained tension and big juicy frights, to give the xenomorph-hungry what they want.

If it hadn’t had someone of Álvarez’s care and attention at the helm, Romulus could certainly have been a lot worse.

Alien: Romulus is diverting enough, but it’s also instantly forgettable — something I don’t think I’ve ever said about any other Alien film, good or bad.

The foundational mistake came when someone said, “Hey, let’s make another ‘Alien’ movie.” Newsflash: The alien concept is dead. Leave it alone, and leave poor Ian Holm out of it.

Watched in imax. Watched on Disney+. Love it. Best Alien film since Aliens from 1986. Director really captured the feeling of Scott's first film perfectly. Only downside are the 3 characters: synthetic hater boy, Asian girl, prego girl, all should have been rewritten, but otherwise, the rest of the film is outstanding. Love the atmosphere, sound and audio, really feel like you're there on the outpost in space. Can't wait for part 2...hopefully., Highly recommended!

Fast, fast, fast. That’s how you make movies today. Grow those aliens fast. Take a quick look at that space ship interior with its detailed recreation of the retro-futuristic vibe of the 1970s, because we’re going to cut to immediately cut to another set. Where’s the aliens? Oh, there it is. And now some more. Why wait for suspense when the suspense can come to you right now. Part of my problem is that I have seen a lot, and I mean a lot, of movies. So immediately I understand that these characters will all die one by one. It also becomes quickly clear to me that this as homage to the Alien franchise, and as such, we will see every plot point of 4 movies packed into one movie. I honestly would not have been surprised if a Predator showed up to reference Alien v. Predator. The movie production and acting are all great, except for this one android head that comes straight from the uncanny value and one character, the jerk, who is played so over the top annoying that you cannot imagine anyone taking this person to space with them much less being their friend. The problem is the direction. It just requires that everything move too fast and be in too great of a quantity. One alien will haunt your dreams. A hundred are just another obstacle for the hero to overcome. All in all, I cannot say this is a bad movie. This movie certainly has more appeal for someone new to the Alien franchise and especially someone new to the space horror genre.

A watchable cashgrab. It's an ok film, but it doesn't do anything new or interesting with the alien franchise. It parodies the bits that everyone remembers from the first aliens film but since it's decades later and not as new or fresh, it doesn't work as well. It's also not all that scary, which is a problem for a sci-fi horror film. The most stupidest part of the film is where the android just blurts out Ripley's most iconic line completely unprompted, like what are the odds that he would say that exact sentence with no prompt or direct call back to the first film?

Frankly disapointed… especially after the master pieces of Covenent and Prometheus. Feels at best like a poor remix of the 4th episode… without the actor and a plot cut to the bone. Look and feel but with too much FX which makes it look a LOT like a video game…a lot of cliché scenes straight out of the 80s… unclear if it was supposed to be fan service but honestly felt weird. Plot itself would be ok for action based video game but not a full blown movie. Dang….Ridley please come back and clean this mess

Recycled scenes from past movies, terrinle CG "Ash", plot holes abound, Alien barely in it and for 90% of the time its in it the just make a scary face and stare, and the hybrid was an abomination...I'd place it last on the rankings of all Alien movies, even lower than AvP as bad as that was it at least had some decent action scenes....Disney killed yet another franchise.