This movie SUCKS - Alien: Romulus - review and reaction (2024) 

I was about to say that's even too evil for Mr Weyland to do

He’s the Alien franchise’s Kathleen Kennedy or Kevin Feige. He has to micro manage everything and not let anything be it’s own thing.

And Ridley Scott doesn’t like James Cameron’s uber awesome Aliens. That means whatever Scott said we should look for the opposite!

Considering he was behind the first and second Alien okay sarcastically

​@@constantinelhemanHe has stated he doesn't like it before? That's so strange. It's the best movie in the franchise.

@@Ravum He stated that he did not like the queen alien but I don't know why she was badass. Probably because you didn't come up with it

The canary 😂🤣 we don't even use those today! 🤣

YEARGH!!!

@@jandro8370 What a PISS-ASS movie, bro! 👎🗑

@@OtomoTenzi I know I'm so mad!

@@OtomoTenzi AWWWWWWW 😫🫨🤫

That’s coming with Alien Earth FX series early next year

Hey hey hey you leave Scooby alone, y'hear? Never again mention him in the same breath as this vapid crap or I will find you & cast you in the next movie

i mean as much respect i have for james cameron, especially with his diving. i doubt that he would have made a good alien movie, i mean better than this probably, but thats not really a challange. but seeing the avatar movies.... damn... if his name is on it, im rather reserved

@@gtaiscool1231 the goal was to milk sheeple using a name they recognised. Whilst explicitly claiming it was remaining true to the franchise roots. Zoomers said "Me First!" -> mission accomplished ✔️ It has all the quality of an infomercial

@@gtaiscool1231 ok zoomer 👍 Wanna buy a bridge?

@@gtaiscool1231 🥱🥱🥱 Yeah you carry on with your 1-D fantasies: I guess it's a break from dreaming about getting out of the gig economy, eh? Meanwhile I'll carry on in my 15th year leading a team of ethical hackers 👍

@@ParkerCS2 Look at the bright side, now you can call everyone that likes Romulus but hates Resurrection a hypocrite.

I find the whole concept of an Alien/Human hybrid to be really stupid. Isn't the Alien already an alien/human hybrid? Isn't that the whole point, it takes on characteristics of whatever it incubates in? And in Romulus it makes even less sense because it was just the black goo. We've already seen the results of that a few times and it always just created slight variants of the xenomorph, so why was it was so engineer/humanoid? The whole movie just felt like a stupid big budget fan film to me, with the pros and cons of being a fan film. Good attention to detail in all the spectrum'y stuff fans obsess over like the sets and practical effects, but the writing was clearly an afterthought.

@@Foulfellow the engineers are also inferior to Predators which are superior intelligent advanced aliens with advanced technology. Ridley Scott wanted to rip them off and do his own “better” version which has instead failed 3 times in a row.

@@Foulfellow It was in a word, a SHITSHOW.

@@ParkerCS2 Har, sad but TRUE... 😂

Like salt in an open wound... I guess someone had to remind us of another missed opportunity for greatness!

@@Star-qc4br haha, I’m sorry.. It just irritates me that Ridley Scott had to pull that crap..He was afraid that Neil Blomkamp would make a much better film, so he had to stop him..And I am sure it would have been a great film had Neil been given the go ahead..

@@monk_moshpit Oats Studios? “Rakka” is cool (with Sigourney Weaver)..I liked a couple other ones as well, but Rakka was the best.. Just that one is the reason why I think he would do an amazing job with the Alien franchise.. Then again, maybe the franchise is just too far gone..Just appreciate the first two gems we got in 1979 and 1986 and realize that those were just movie magic that we will never find again with that franchise..

Dont be ridiculous!! Romulus may have plenty of issues, especially that 3rd act, but Neil Blomkamp's Alien5 would have buried this franchise beyond repair. "Aliens that actually built Space Jockey ships, Engineers that were a human experiment, and AI that was controlling everything from the start". ALL of this garbage leaked on Reddit years ago was Blomkamp's plan for Allen5, for which there was never any script, and Fox (not Ridley Scott) were absolutely right to pull the plug.

@@RoaryUK you know what they say about opinions..

This movie was supposed to get away from the Prometheus story line but it just re-hashed it totally at the end. Bad CG on the Ash robot was terrible his face kept changing size compared to the body

I agree, me and my mates said out there somewhere is a directors cut, with the real ending. It felt like the last 30mins had been through many script rewrites and reshoots

How cringy was the prometheus theme when rook says thanks to the prometheus lmfao😂 . Ridley needs to go away

@@MikeDiLeonardoJr no wonder James Cameron said recently he didn’t like Romulus. He tried to warn us.

@@ParkerCS2 the movie was terrible bro. Only original concept was the cacoon. Other then that hot garbage and re treading

@@MikeDiLeonardoJr yes 💯 the only likeable character from it was Andy. And at times he acted like he was on the spectrum. Which is insulting because I’m on the spectrum and don’t act that weird. Hollywood has no idea how autism works. And a robot shouldn’t act autistic. It’s stupid. A robot doesn’t have human emotions and thought patterns. They are a machine.

Go see it. Don't base your decisions on what critics and reviewers think

@@PKGangsta18 Good advice! Thank you!

Prey is actually better than this pos movie 😭

@@Xander-86 WOW!!! THAT really puts it into perspective!

Hey bro, have ya also watched Matt's review on this movie? 😲 He had it split up into like 2 videos (about an hour long each), and was basically just STOMPIN' this pile of trash all the way down into the deepest depths of HELL... And that shure ain't NO goddamn bullshit! He made some very valid points about the way how the stupid script was all messed-up, the poor acting and directing, the cheap-ass movie sets, and how the entire cast and crew was a JOKE. Very emotionally-charged, heart attack inducing shit! 😳

There have been a TON of negative reviews of this movie….if thats what you are calling a “real review”….

@@gagelindell271 That should tell you that the movie is not as awesome as they tell you.

@@bernardstrauss1183 Thanks Captain Obvious!

By 'true' review. You mean a review that you agree with. If you hate this movie then that's fine and dandy, plenty of people agree with you. But also plenty of people don't. Don't act like people are wrong or liers for having a different opinion than yours, that's just not how people work at all

@@TiredMammal All he said was 5 words... Is there any need to get all worked up?

yeah technically that super moron helped his girlfriend escape, further dooming every brainless person there.

I wouldn't go that far, both are trash with nice sets.

Resurrection was total shit, Romulus is about 60% shit

NO SHIT... An AVP reboot, complete with Arnie, Sigourney Weaver, Danny Glover, and Michael Biehn would've been PERFECT!!!

But I though the movie production budget itself was only 80 million? 😳

@@OtomoTenzithe theaters keep 50% of the profits and there’s a marketing budget. The movie will have to make triple the $80 million to break even, minimum

@@deadschooled For this stinkin' heap of SHIT??? I bet even 1st-year film students working on a really low budget could prolly do better than that!

And Forest Gump as a synthetic

After you see it, let me know what you think.

Definitely!

What a moron

You’re just the kind of mark Disney relies on to not go bankrupt

Ok. I had to switch to my computer to type all this out. So, using the electric prod, maybe have been a move of desperation. That doesn't mean it wasn't a stupid choice. Secondly, Rain specifically said, when Andy offered Kay the goo injection, " Stop. I don't trust this. Don't do it." Third, Homeboy was starring closely at the spike. He even walks up closer to it to get a better look at what it is. And I would like to also mention that he just let acid drip all over him, instead of rolling out of the way after the first drop hits his skin. And that same guy did know the Aline was in the cocoon, because on the ship, he grabs Kay, covers her mouth, and points to it. Indicating that that is where the Alien is. True he may not have known that a full grown Xenomorph was inside it. But considering he figured it was at least the monster that burst out of his girl friends chest, sticking your face as close as you can get to an ominous looking spike is a dumb thing to do. Using the Cryo-spray was used to loosen the tail. But they fingers of the face hugger also have large inward facing hooks, that would be incredibly hard to get off. They just lift gently, and it's not problem. Are they smarter that the Prometheus and Covenant crews? Possibly. I really don't remember. But I don't think that is really relevant to this movie. Anyway. Thanks for watching the video.

@@reviewbomb85 Rain is another character that says she doesn't trust it, that makes sense for her character but she isn't in the quandary of taking it. She also tells Kay to "take this" to the ship, so she may not have trusted it but still bought into Rook and Andy's ideas about its importance enough to have it brought on the ship. Also Kay is dying and maybe doesn't trust she will make it so whether Rain doesn't trust the drug or not, she only has Andy confidently saying "it worked on the mouse" and Rain not disputing anything he says and just not feeling right about it. I'm not seeing "sticking your face as close as you can get to an ominous looking spike" that youre seeing in that scene. The scene is in your vid and it looks at closest 6 feet, the tail is shown to have extended out quite a bit too, the guy was way closer, practically hugging it, when he was attacking it. He also didn't "let acid drip on him" he was blinded by the tail and already had the acid continuously dripping on him at that point and was in extreme pain on the ground, he was basically already dead. And here at best you only have one "stupid" character whose actions are congruent as its shown to be part of his character to take risk and make rash and unwise decisions, such as in the smoking and gravity scene, and its the same guy who uses the electric prod in the water. There are "stupid" characters in Alien and Aliens like Brett, Kane, and Gorman. Why did Brett just stare dumbstruck at the Alien? The facehugger was frozen on its back towards the base of the tail, it was a rather large area, its not a huge leap to assume the facehugger was weakened by the cryo spray, it even behaves as such in the film. What Dallas says doesnt really factor in this situation. Also it wasn't "gently lifted", it cut to a side view of them lifting it off after the fingers were already detached from her head.

oh come on it's like the shuttle crash scene has been in ten other movies or something. I think this film is harder to watch for fans than new comers.

We obviously are seeing things completely differently. But that happens sometimes. Again, thanks for watching the video.

@@williamoverton7775 Most fans including myself loved it despite any flaws it had, and every movie has flaws.

'Sir Didley Squat the Hack' 😆 Sounds like a pretty fitting title for that scumbag!

Thank you.

A total SHITSHOW through and through... Now hurry up and get these NUT-HUGGERS offa me, cuz they hurt like crazy! 🩸😫🩸

I was about to say, as much as I hated Covenant, I have a new-found respect for it. While'st both of Scott's prequels were enormously flawed, at least they were well crafted and most importantly original.

St. Elmo's fire 2024 version, in space 😂

same, it was a boring slug of 2h, nearly fell asleep. prometheus and covenant had original storylines and i found it very interesting and was curious of how it was going to finish this arc and david. but yeah, disney said no, we need a boring alien movie.

Cool. Thanks for watching the video.

The xenomorph was holding her so that the facehugger that was in the elevator shaft could impregnate her.

@@Gabaraguy But in the end, it was the audience that got RAPED... 😭😭😭😭

The movie contradicts every single film in the franchise. You can go ahead and come down off that fence…

All those "AWESOME" reviews were simply PAID-OFF by the studios... They just wanted to make shure that this stinker sells. Need I say MORE??? 💰💰🤑💰💰

Exactly. And what is it that we have to have such young actors in these movies now as well not to mention they are always having to be so politically correct. Make sure you have the Black Man, The Asian, The Hispanic, The White, The Aussie ect ect ect. Oh and don't forget the Boss babe who's always smarter than the Men because the Men always make bad decisions and act like fools. None of them can beat the original because you developed a connection with the characters. They never overplayed the Alien because sometimes what you don't see is scarier than what you do. Because this one sucks so bad I think I will watch the original again just for the hell of it.

Did you get the souvenir pop corn bucket?

@@reviewbomb85 no I didn't actually, I'm in Scotland I haven't seen any!

@@reviewbomb85 they look badass online though

You have bad taste in movies

​​@@aperson539kind of lame that you all congregate on a safe video with the same mindset as everyone else here. The movie is doing well and enjoyed by many more people than those who dislike it. Their opinion is more valid than yours by sheer numbers of other who enjoyed it

huh?

@@reviewbomb85 I'm just having fun being sarcastic... about many WIke reboots, while also disagreeing with you.

Word.

Can'tcha already tell that the actors are GAY??? 🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈

@@OtomoTenzi No, I didn't see that?

I don’t think resurrection was better. T to be fair, I am not sure if I have even seen it. If I have it’s been so long I don’t remember much, except for the basketball scene anyway. Thanks for watching the video.

@@reviewbomb85 mainly referring to comment section, video was good. Will say Romulus really made me want to play Isolation again

Yeah. Isolation is pretty cool.

Very true.

Yeargh, I also heard about some kinda mention of INCEST... 🤨 Just when ya though the poorly-written script couldn't get ANY worse! 😝

@@OtomoTenzi serious lol That's wild. Plus, all the forehead bumping in place of romance seemed outright bizarre

@@starfire451 Har, why didn't it get like a PG-13 rating then? 😆 I honestly thought that this watered-down bullshit was for TEENS?

There were pretty obvious hints lol, seems like yall just went in and not pay a lick of attention

@@yes-si9xi obvious hints is an issue with the script though. Something as straightforward as a relationship shouldn't really be hinted at, and even after the film ended, you kind of realise that none of that went anywhere (reunited as lovers, siblings fighting to protect one another, the a hat coming to terms with his hate for the android etc ...). Any such bonds and arcs were all surface level with no real depth or point. I wouldn't blame the audience for tuning out of that aspect

Cool. Thanks for watching.

Yes!

You sound just like the critics in 1979 "Word for Word" and they are now Eating Crow . . . I have already see it 3 times, Once in IMAX . . . Life is good in the Alien Universe!

@@beautifulportland9592 to say this movie is good is the same thing as saying you don't know right from wrong😶

​@@thulsa5218 FALSE EQUIVALENCE 😇 This is a Cinematic issue not a Moral issue: I Repeat, LIFE IS GOOD in The ALIEN UNIVERSE . . . . And at ROMULUS Box Office . . . .

1979 Review of ALIEN . . .“An overblown B-movie… technically impressive but awfully portentous and as difficult to sit through as a Black Mass sung in Latin … Alien, like Dawn of the Dead, only scares you away from the movies.” Michael Sragow, L.A. Herald Examiner.

Socks???

3 times?!? Dang. Did you get the souvenir popcorn bucket?

Twice here but going back in a few days to see it with one of my besties who is out of town - she has seen it once - it was 'not scary enough' for her, but she's going to see it again with me... I'm paying... :) I loved it!!!

well, if you're offering to pay, I'll come too.

Cuz they simply just ran outta BULLSHIT...

Really need more supply for the rehash warehouse

Those bullshit networks prolly all got PAID-OFF to promote this stinker! 🤑

Prometheus is better than alien 3😂

Disney heavily controls the online scores of new movies. They even buy tickets for empty seats to manipulate the numbers. It's actually part of the marketing budget.

@@gregs7519 good to know! thanks

​@@hollowkid97that's blasphemed

That Hybrid is lame. I wish they dont do that again.

It was Alien 4 all over again 😭

Did you watch the movie, or just go by this reviewer that's in the minority?

HAR!!!

Cool. Thanks for watching the video.

☠🪦REST IN PIECES🪦☠: Listen to me very carefully, motherfuckers... 😳 This is NOT a threat, it is a WARNING. Trust me, you will DIE if you don't heed this warning. One thing that I am certain of, is that headstones DO NOT lie. When was the last time you visited your local graveyard or cemetery? Everytime whenever I visit, I cannot help but notice the ever-increasing numbers of young people mostly in their 20s/30s/40s getting BURIED long before their time. Dying from tragedies and accidents is ONE THING; but dying of unnatural causes long before even their parents do, is YET ANOTHER!!! If the world was really such a nice and wonderful place like it was all cracked up to be, then this kinda bullshit wouldn't be happening. Matter of fact is; the world might actually be FUCKING YOU inside and out, day and night, 24/7/365. I have already asked TONS of people what they think the reason or the cause may be, but 90% of the people that I asked CANNOT give me a straight honest answer. One could only speculate that it might be attributed to bad medicine, poisoned water, tainted food or toxic polluted environments being contributing factors. Cancer, AIDS, COVID, you name it! Or, it could be something FAR MORE SINISTER... SOMETHING is KILLING people out there, and I'm pretty damn shure of it. So if there's something that you'd like to do, then you better DO IT while you still can. If there's food on the table, then ya better EAT IT while it's still warm. If there's an open can of beer, then you better DRINK IT while it's still fizzy. If there's a brand-new jacket in your closet, then you better WEAR IT while it's still fashionable. If there's a nice car that you've always wanted, then you better DRIVE IT while it still runs. If there's a nice place that you've always wanted to visit, then you better GO THERE while it still exists. If there's a person that you haven't seen in a long while, then you better go SEE 'EM while they're still alive. If any of you have somethin' to say, then ya better say it RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW. ...While you still have A CHANCE??? Cuz your time is RUNNING OUT... The world is coming to an END, and you KNOW IT... We ALL KNOW IT, GODDAMMIT. And yes, that fucking means fucking YOU. Oh, and just be thankful when you see the sun come up the next morning. 🙏ALTMAN BE PRAISED!!!🙏

lol, ok boomer, time for your heart meds

Gramps said dei hired actors 😭

The black guy was the best actor in the movie..

I would say Alien - Alien 3 have characters that make pretty smart choices. I don't care about any of the other movies.

@@reviewbomb85 This stinker of a movie just had SHIT vibes all around it... Everything about the script was QUESTIONABLE, and it just stinks and reeks like GARBAGE. If I really wanted to see a flick about high school misfits, then I'd rather watch The Breakfast Club! 😎

That was actually quite nice of you to say that... I'd be STOMPIN' MAD!!!

I wish I could say the first half was good but I couldn't believe that's the premise and plot they were going with. This ship is just floating above an oppressed mining colony and these kids hatch a plan to steal the ships cryo chamber and fly somewhere else? Definitely shit.

@@jandro8370 I'd rather have a NUT-HUGGER latch itself onto me, than watch this stinkin' pile of DOG SHIT!!! 🤪

No one can really know for sure.

@@reviewbomb85 Har, I would know a TROLL when I see one... And you ain't one of 'em, that's fer shure!

Yep, it shure is BAD! 😝

Thanks. I appreciate the support.

@@reviewbomb85 No problems anytime/anything/anywhere... You certainly deserve our praise for mass-informing the public to beware of this toxic trash!

This is not worse than Catwoman, Morbius, The Room, Madam Web 🤣. It should have taken more risks but it's a good movie. If they didn't lean so much into soft reboot and nostalgia territory, it could have been great in my opinion. The cinematography is excellent and the xenomorph looks better than ever.

@@MellowMutant it is indeed worse than Madame Web. At least I could laugh at Madame Web. Sorry you have no taste or standards

Worse than after earth? It's even better than Alien covenant

​@deadschooled you prob haven't seen many movies. You only mentioned madam web, the newest of the movies he used an example of

@@deadschooled no taste or standards 🤣, The Thing is my favorite horror movie, The Lost Boys is awesome, Terminator 2 is one of the greatest sequels ever.

What you call "homage", I call lazy theft. But it's cool you like it. The individual experiences of everyone is really all that matters in the end. Thanks for watching the video.

@@reviewbomb85 The guy that made the shots you're talking about, Ridley Scott literally produced, watched early cuts, gave his opinion to fede and praises the final film. If it was truly theft then the guy that directed those original shots would say something about it right? So who on earth is fede stealing shots from if not from Ridley Scott? The cameramen? You? I promise you bro it's called an homage, not "theft"

I well aware of Ridley Scott’s involvement. It doesn’t change how I feel about it. This is something that all legacy sequels do, and I think it is stupid across the board. One shot, maybe two is a montage. More than that, and I can’t abide by it. I wanted to watch this movie, not constantly be reminded of other movies. Thanks for the conversation.

@@reviewbomb85 i suppose it just comes down to how you look at it. I'm assuming You wanted something fresh from the alien franchise and I wanted something more like the first two movies, and I feel like I got that and more out of this film 🤷‍♂️

@aunbomb Not exactly. I mean they didn’t have to make some sort of wild swing. Just a solid movie that tried to stand on its own merits, and not and not worry about in universe references all time. As I said in the video, pretty much everything in the movie works really well. It’s just the stuff that doesn’t, does a ton of damage to the overall experience for me. But as I’ve said many times before, what really matters is how we all as individuals feel about a movie. In my reviews, I only give my recommendations and opinions. I never belittle the audience, and I never tell them what to think. Thanks again for chatting. I hope you will revisit the channel, And maybe there is a video I’ve done that we agree on. Cheers.

forgot, yeah WY dont let you go to a other planet and make you work yourself to death in the mines but jump in a spaceship with your teenager friends and fly off somewhere of the planet without someone cares is fine.

They do know but when are characters arrive it’s only been a few hours since the incident. I believe it’s also mentioned it takes the company six months to get there since you know it’s in space.

@@Canadian_duck31 but WY have a Mining Colony just on the planet and as we could see there are Space ships, so i would assume there have Marines or at least some Security Forces on the Planet, why not send them up and secure the Alien Stuff and not just let all go to waste after searching so long for it.

@@MeisterVivi I imagine they were given orders to stay on the planet remember the station has only 47 minutes till it crashes into Thedus rings. Why risk people needlessly getting killed and painting a bad image on the company I also can imagine the company doesn’t want people finding out about there experiments on the Xenomorph.

@@Canadian_duck31 it was only 47 minutes after the kids crashed there ship in a station thruster, as the just a few minutes before implanted paraside choose he is finished cooking and came back out. (another thing that was shit, the alien incubation time) before that they has 36 hours when i remember right and the the station was also already there before as the one boy has seen in on a scanner from a ship. so they has enough time to send someone from the planet. sure maybe WY not want to risk lifes but we talk about WY of course they would send peoples with guns up to collect the precious Xenomorph stuff, i guess WY would even infested the full mining planet to not lose the xenomorph.

@@gtaiscool1231 Greatness is subjective. In this case, I'm influenced by the opinions of many, taking in reviews that were favorable as well as negative. I also have friends who know my movie tastes and I ask them as well. Knowing me, they say don't bother. As far as I'm concerned, nothing tops my experiences of the first two movies I saw when I was much younger, nor do I feel I've missed anything by not watching ALIEN ROMULUS. The world doesn't end because I miss a movie. Besides, I said I won't watch it in a theater; doesn't mean I won't watch it at all. I don't feel the need to spend a lot of money on what I feel is a tired franchise that unnecessarily recycles itself.

@@gtaiscool1231 Oh okay, and you're a troll who wastes his time questioning someone's taste. Waste your money, if you like. I remember watching better movies than this and paying much less.

@@gtaiscool1231 I guess you accept anything Hollywood gives you. No taste.

@@gtaiscool1231 You're supposed to pay to have garbage taken away. Obviously, you pay to watch garbage.

Mehest movie of 2024!

Lil bro did not watch Dune 2… or any other movie apparently

@@Isaac-jl6hq dune & dune 2 the most basic overrated movies in years!

@@D88niel No, they are not. From a writing, directing, sound, and technical angle, it is the best movie in years. Fairly objectively too. The writing is tight and seamless. Modern audiences don’t seem to have enough of an attention span to enjoy real movies. Maybe if we put subway surfers under the screen you would’ve enjoyed it more?

"Best movie of 2024" is as reputable a title as "Best venereal disease."

the og alien films mostly had rational decisions so you're totally wrong

@@seanmills7586 People had much lower expectations back in those days, but the OG Alien films have ultimately stood the test of time and are still GREAT even by today's standards... Just the way how they handled the creepy atmosphere alone, simply cannot be beat!

@@OtomoTenzi damn right old classics are just too good

@@seanmills7586 I just re-watched the first 2 OG Alien films last night, and it quite simply just blows this stinkin' pile of DOG SHIT right outta the universe... The people who were involved with the film-making process back then in the 70's and 80's really had their SHIT together!

Also went on discount day..

I’m sorry I hurt you.

@@reviewbomb85 Yep, he sounds just like another PAID-OFF puppy... Bein' DELUSIONAL ain't gonna really gonna change the FACTS tho. This movie SUCKS COCK, and everyone knows that! 😝

@@OtomoTenzidawg your in every comment thread, it’s an opinion, grow up.

@@Kingzy42 Were you PAID to TALK??? 🤨

@@gtaiscool1231 Please stop shilling for Disney. You sound like someone who has never seen a movie before

Rain mentions her dad found him in the trash and fixed him up he was basically defective.(and still is to some extent hence the need for reboots throughout the film)

Cool. Thanks for watching the video.

@@reviewbomb85 my pleasure.