Alien Romulus - Ridley Scott's Revenge

[@RobotHead]

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[@JimThePerson]

One of the best movies of 2024

[@tim1843]

Cinematography was absolutely amazing. We got some shots that rival Aliens, Alien and Prometheus. The amount of fan service was hard to handle though. Overall 6/10. I read Ridley had a hand in the Engineer character at the end which sucks, as that was horrible. Hopefully Fede gets full control of the next Instalment. Bring on Alien Earth next year. There is still hope!

[@anubusx]

Romulus makes no sense in terms of contiunity in the franchise.

[@Melvin-Deeply]

@@JimThePerson That's a low bar I reckon.

[@peanutsthebard]

Get well soon mechano man

[@phatmantv]

"Who cares about canon. Just eat our sht product and don't complain." - Modern Hollywood

[@SmokeNGunsBBQ]

@@phatmantv Disney trying desperately to keep up profits without any original material. I'm just glad they didn't woke it up and have the girl banging the black andriod

[@TopHatPenguin]

I’ve been loosing my mind because everyone online is acting like it’s just as good as the original when I just hated so many parts of

[@Cabooseforprez2012]

I think the point is that so much of what gets made now that's either completely awful or so overburdened by messaging that just recapturing the look and a little writing is well received.

[@JurassicRod]

I hate when a film keeps reminding me it's a film. All these constant call backs to scenes, shots and lines from previous movies pretty much stops the film each time to wank at me and say ''member that?''. Completely takes me out of the experience by reminding me I'm watching a product with no real vision.

[@uberneanderthal]

movies in the 70s and 80s were made by hunters, tracking fresh game, taking risks. 🦁 movies now are made by scavengers, picking the bones of what the hunters left behind, afraid of their own shadow 🙈 (yes, I'm aware Ridley made the original Alien. he was a lion then, he's a frail old buzzard now)

[@charlesman8722]

Ridley Scott didn’t make alien

[@v.m.a.d.l.e.6972]

He is the producer. Not the director. If you want something related that is good, watch Raised by Wolves, it was canceled (of course) but there are two seasons, and even so it is not specified as related to Alien, you can tell it is and the director is his son (also produced by him). And the quality is above prometheus and this doodoo.

[@Khultan]

*WELL SAID.*

[@amalekedomite]

Movies in thye 70s and 80s were made in a european culture. Movies now are made in a (((weimarian))) culture. A j culture.

[@kri249]

Perfect analogy. The movies of the 70s and 80s were like music, good and original. Movies today are like sampling rap songs or dance remixes. Pure shit. I always reference the hitcher in the third season of The Mighty Boosh. "Elements of the past and future combine to make something not quite as good as either."

[@shan4680]

I may be away from the home country but in fine Australian tradition, I’m still watching this on the toilet

[@goport]

surely you mean the Dunny?

[@shan4680]

@@goport I'm keeping in mind the international audience.

[@goport]

@@shan4680 hahah! No worries.

[@Jabberstax]

😂

[@mikej6115]

5:22 put this at the beginning

[@Manikromantik]

Would have made so much more sense have it set after the events of Aliens. Have them show up on the ship while Ripley, Newt, and Hicks are all in cryosleep and have an adventure that explains what the hell happened that the escape pod had to be launched sending them all down to the prison planet with only Ripley to survive for Alien 3. Then maybe that movie wouldn’t piss people off so much anymore.

[@thor3279]

But that would require Scott to consider Cameron a colleague and not a rival. It's so much more important to push everyone else's sandcastle down than work collaboratively to build even greater things than any one person could build alone. The exact reason why massive organizations determined to provide equal results to all, because it's so much easier to destroy the success of others than it is to go out there and try to create something good. There are only 2 Alien movies. All the pretenders are some vile combination of cash grab and vanity project.

[@fullyawakened]

did you watch the movie before commenting?! have to assume not. the entire opening sequence is them salvaging the Alien from the original alien movie from the vacuum of space from the wreckage of the 40 year old destroyed Nostromo that Ripley had her encounter on. what the heck are you talking about

[@carlm8892]

It's not so much a remake but a REMIX of all the greatest hits from the franchise for consumption by the tik tok generation.

[@stevealford230]

"Alienses: The Carlos Mencia Cut"

[@CleverGirlAAH]

At an unintentionally memetic splash of "Sumfin' in'na wa'uh!!" And you're golden haha

[@MurderMostFowl]

I got this feeling too… I almost thought there should’ve been someone in one of the corners of the screen doing a reaction live

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

Well said

[@leightonbate7516]

I'm not a Tik Toker and I loved it apart from the bad CGi on Ash and a few callback lines.

[@Grim2]

Alien 1: Nostromo literally blows up in a massive explosion Romulus: "Somehow Nostromo has returned"

[@samuel3253]

... with Palpatine on board.

[@bri55118]

Not just an explosion, 3 explosions. It's really hard to find much left after that.

[@thebatman4279]

​@@bri55118A remarkably durable space vessel indeed 🧐

[@Simon-xc5oy]

@@bri55118 Exactly on another video about Romulus I had a huge argument with some idiot who insisted Romulus and the Nostromo surviving three nuclear blasts was perfectly possible!!! Despite what we saw in Alien at the end. There would be nothing at all left of anything after that, and any dust etc would have been propelled in all directions forever. Totally could not understand why people were saying this explosion would have left debris to find, as it would not. So in the end to shut him up I said this - The company knew there was a distress call in that system from something Alien etc...which is why they sent the Nostromo there with Ash in the first place. To get it or investigate it on the cheap without sending a dedicated crew. So they knew that something had happened after Nostromo vanished and Ash did not get back to them. Twenty years later there is a mine colony on the big planet with the rings from the first movie!!! So why not just send a few people over to its moon to look for the source of the signal / derelict and go to the location Nostromo went to!!! They are right there next to it now! Job done, Aliens etc found. No need at all to search for a wreck of Nostromo that would not be there much less an Alien creature floating in space....

[@baloghcsaba88726]

​@@bri55118Not to mention the Alien was thrown into space from the lifeboat after Nostromo blew up dozens of miles away. No way they could've picked it up right among its rubble - if there could be anything left at all after such a powerful explosion

[@theclassicalhomeopath]

somehow palpatine returned...... i mean the alien returned

[@BSM-vw6cf]

Except it makes sense for the alien

[@Frito_Pendejo]

Somehow the Nostromo returned.

[@RM_VFX]

Somehow, Darth Ridleyus returned

[@phatmantv]

​@RM_VFX In Hollywood if you are one the chosen, you can fail upwards. It's like Alien Covenant/ Prometheus never existed.

[@reaps912]

It's now canon that Andy the android says "the line" _before_ Ripley does

[@MurderMostFowl]

It doesn’t even make sense that he would say that why would an android even use that as a comparison?

[@rangerone8813]

Andy may have said it first in the fictional timeline that he is set in, but we know who really said it first. I don’t know if the writers were trying to steal Weaver’s thunder somehow, but if they were, they only made themselves look derivative, cheap, and disrespectful of their own franchise.

[@nightelfuser]

They can canonize whatever rubbish they want. Most of us don't even care about this franchise anymore.

[@nathanwolfe6698]

This deeply upsets me. Thanks.

[@fullyawakened]

Can you explain your reasoning for saying this? I have to assume you didn't watch the movie yet, since the entire opening scene is a salvage operation from the destroyed station Nostromo where they reference the fact that the original Alien movie occurred over 40 years ago in this timeline. They literally pull the original xenomorph from the original Alien movie out of the vacuum of space and make a big show of displaying the 40 year old wreckage of Ripley's ship, the Nostromo.

[@viniciusms6636]

The cast looks like a bunch of apartment kids who have never entered a bus in their entire lives.

[@ArtofLunatik]

Apartment kids?

[@SmokeNGunsBBQ]

@@viniciusms6636 bus? Adults drive automobiles.

[@freedomwriter9688]

Adults, what is a kid to you?

[@viniciusms6636]

@@freedomwriter9688 none of them looks or moves like an adult. The first Alien movie has a more coherent casting.

[@freedomwriter9688]

@@viniciusms6636 yet they are closer to sigourney weavers age when did alien. Not that nowadays adults in their 20s still look like teens at this point

[@bri55118]

Each alien movie since AVP has the face huggers embryos gestation faster each time. In alien, it gave the impression it was at least several hrs on kane, then after it removed it's self, the creature matured in him for a few hrs later. I think it indicated almost a full day from the egg to the chest buster. In romulas, it didn't even fully impregnate before being removed, and then hatching in less than an hour after it attached itself . No setup at all, even alien: resurrection had the chest buster victim give a false scare once, maybe twice. Same with Ripley in alien 3. Both took time to mature inside. Now, it is instantly done just to get the plot going.

[@surrealcereal603]

This. Why haven’t other reviews talked about this? It’s undoubtedly a cardinal sin in an Alien movie to expedite the gestation for sake of plot. I hated this so much.

[@adriel88_]

@@surrealcereal603how u know the girl was knocked out for several hours u and I don’t know that so it might’ve been 4 hours since she got knocked out and finally waking up when Kane wakes up the the chestburster didn’t even gave him time to eat the best one that did was alien resurrection cuz like he said the guy with the glasses made it seemed like the chestburster was gonna rip him and hellboy with puertorican soldier points their guns at him and he tells them I’m ok I’m ok

[@andrew3642]

@@surrealcereal603 this ABSOLUTELY goes unchecked and inarguably impacts the film as a whole. 100%

[@borislugosi54]

Other things fast tracked is how the chest burster built the wall vagina/cocoon in minutes and the rapid growth of the alien itself. Alien implied time passing between the events. It helped to build mystery and suspense instead of rapidly throwing everything at the viewer.

[@freedomwriter9688]

It implies that these aren’t natural aliens but created by scientists

[@pr248]

The reason why Michael Caine was so angry is because Ridley Scott doesn't doesn't understand Newton's laws of motion and how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big space is.

[@MarvinPowell1]

Here's an way way to picture how big space is. The speed of light can travel around the world eight times in a single second, but takes eight minutes to travel from the sun to Earth. Imagine that; count to 480 and that's how long it takes to reach the _at the speed of light._ It takes nine hours to reach Pluto at light speed and several days to reach the Oort cloud; the end of the solar system. Another analogy: If the solar system was scaled to the size of the entire intercontinental United States, then Earth would be the size of a 10 cent coin. That's a scale factor of 1 billion km = 1 km. From New York to Los Angeles is 4,500 kilometers. The size of our solar system alone just to Neptune, is 4.5 billion km. It's called "space" for a reason. :)

[@SmokeNGunsBBQ]

@@pr248 space jockeys. Engineers don't exist :)

[@PatTheBatmanFan]

You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts compared to space.

[@dumbcat]

Sir Isaac Newton spent decades calculating when Jesus Christ will return. In the end Newton chose the year 2060 as the earliest likely date.

[@SmokeNGunsBBQ]

@@dumbcat the spaghetti monster will arrive in __insert random number__

[@willbrink]

I had no plans to see this movie, but this review further confirms why I will not bother. Thanx.

[@idiotproofdalek]

I knew at some point a company would try and sell me air, but I had no idea it would be in a Robot Head video….!

[@jordantewari]

The thing is, I went to see this movie with a girl friend of mine that has never seen any alien film before, she was 34 so not a child, so not too young. And she loved it. I think when you go to this movie without knowing what came before and comparing it to the others, it works quite well, but for those of us seasoned film lovers who have seen all the films before, some of it can be a slap in the face and ridiculous.

[@John-fk2ky]

Even if I cut out all my criticisms regarding connections to the past (illogical as that is for new additions to a franchise), the movie has one glaring flaw, the finale. Words can’t describe how much I hate the ending. Besides feeling like a bad knockoff of the first film’s ending, the new creature looked just plain stupid, how it even became a problem was even stupider (why would you inject yourself with the weird goo that the creepy android suggests you take rather than listen to the person that saved your butt who thinks it’s a bad idea?), and the monster is the most illogical I’ve ever seen. The original alien already breaks all laws of chemistry and physics with its insanely short growth period, but you can at least squeeze in some time into parts of the first film. This one makes the problem worse, but the new monster makes the whole complaint silly. It literally grows from baby-sized to wingless giant bat (that was my first thought when seeing it) literally in the space between hatching from its egg thing to reaching the other characters. The Xenomorph at least has the possibility that it t SOMETHING to fuel its growth. This thing, not so much. If this were my first Alien film, I’d never watch another. It has every criticism I have of the xenomorphs even more sped up, so it feels illogical. The ending, as I already said, was stupid. The whole xenomorph life cycle makes even less sense than usual. A lot of the dialogue was cheesy (particularly saved ONLY because I knew where it came from). The characters were all idiots (the chief reason why I like the first film is because the characters don’t feel like idiots). I really don’t see how your friend could have liked this unless she watches things on a very surface level.

[@jordantewari]

@@John-fk2ky OK you got me there I forgot about the finale. I think I tried to block it out of my mind.

[@jordantewari]

@@John-fk2ky but I think that’s a harsh take about not seeing another alien film if this was your first alien film, Especially knowing that all of them were made by different directors over different decades with different writers. And we have to admit the film was nice eye candy, it looked and sounded great. And the first half was very good. They just needed some people to tell them, “No don’t do that” and I don’t think enough people did. but that can be the problem with creating things at first. It seems like a great idea but when you stop and really think about it, it’s not.

[@jordantewari]

@@John-fk2ky and about my friend liking it, yea she’s not a movie buff, she’s a simple girl that likes simple things, she’s not complex like maybe you and I am and the movie was made for the masses, not connoisseurs us. I’ve watched more movies than maybe anybody you’ve known since I was a small child and even I could find positives in the film. Don’t be such a hard critic. Love what we have. I would’ve rather have a new alien movie to watch than no new alien movie to watch.

[@Yesawwwh]

Overall I enjoyed the movie despite me being critical about movies. I think I let a lot of bad moments slide because I was entranced on how well it was made. . I did enjoy the ending but that very last scene should have ended with something else. I don't enjoy copy and paste movies (cough cough The Force Awakens), but this one gets a pass for me because it's still a competent movie with a lot of good jump scares. The characters are written poorly but when it comes to decision making, it's a lot easier for people to say "DON'T DO THAT" when you are just watching. I can defend the actions on SOME level, but I'm grateful it's not obnoxious levels of bad so I let it slide to enjoy myself. It's very charming and I would def watch this again and again over Covenant.

[@stuartwhitehead3167]

I watched it today. I honestly didn't think it was that bad......when compared to some of the later alien movies. But you might be right about Ridley trying to erase Aliens. Prometheus was his was to get rid of AVP. I personally feel that Ridley has been told far too many times that he was the creator of the Alien franchise. I think that honor goes to O'Bannon and Schusett.

[@vince_c]

Fede's reason for using Ian Holm's likeness for Rook is because he's the only Android in the series that hasn't made multiple appearances. His family also approved of using his likeness in the movie, saying that he would've loved it. So I'm fine with it. Sure, there was that android lady in Resurrection, but let's be honest, Ash is more memorable.

[@Pneumanon]

Pretty poor reasoning I think.

[@WantonMyth]

Holm's family would've loved the extra cash flow

[@JoakimOtamaa]

So distasteful from the family.

[@bidmaster2579]

Well done again. Why do I prefer a Robot Head video more than most movies I watch? FML.

[@longtsun8286]

Not your fault, when "current year" scriptwriters, directors, actors, and other filmmakers consistently EPIC FAIL to do their jobs.

[@cheeks7050]

because films genuinely aren't good at the moment.

[@MurderMostFowl]

What’s with the needless rapid maturation of the creature? It isn’t necessary for the plot. You could’ve just made them be stranded and have time pass and let it mature normally. Maybe even have them let their guard down because it’s been so long. It would’ve been suspenseful and great.

[@dannii312]

It was always that fast.

[@chrisfraser5088]

I had the exact same reaction. After about 30 minutes in, I was thinking, “are we actually getting a GOOD Alien movie?” 😃 Buuuut…my optimism quickly vanished. This movie took a big ol’ nose dive REAL quick. Wasted opportunity.

[@andrew3642]

Not unlike the first *5* minutes of Alien Resurrection!!! 😂

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

For the record, the people interviewing Ripley at the start of the second movie ARE NOT Weyland Yutani people, well, most of them aren't. The majority of them are members of the Interstellar Commerce Board. Also, 37 years would still be plenty of time for anyone who found wreckage of the Nostromo or the Alien to hide stuff away...

[@jamesday1295]

Finally, a review that highlights the stupidity of setting this film 20 years after Alien, when adding another 40 years irons out so many issues.

[@MurderMostFowl]

I agree that they should have done it later, but they could have even kept it at 20 years, but made the origin unknown… There’s nothing that says we have to know where the eggs came from. It would have been cool to have this all take place on a derelict station that we find a ship attached to that had a science crew in it and they are all dead and slightly mummified because they’ve been dead for a few years and they have no idea why they died but they had containers in a cargo hold that look busted open. And then we see some eggs open slightly when the kids turn on the environmental controls or whatever there you go Ridley Scott… An idea I figured out in 30 seconds that is better than your stupid movie.

[@jamesday1295]

@@MurderMostFowl I agree with that scenario as well. Make it a Seegson base who just happened upon the rock works for me just as well. The pulse rifle would really want me to push this as 'post aliens' though.

[@SlayerPDX]

Ridley was just a producer you clown.

[@chatteyj]

Most of the problem with sequels these days comes from harking back to films before it, no confidence in what they are doing.

[@jamesday1295]

@chatteyj True. The franchise mentality just doesn't work long term. Especially in the Lore heavy IPs with years of extended universe material (which sounds like it should be easy) You will always reach a point where you can't make everyone happy. Each successive movie, after that point, just divides the remaining audience again. It's OK with fun, bug budget B movies like Fast & Furious. But not for serious stories with ramifications. Harry Potter worked because all the source material was completed by 1 storyteller in advance.

[@DMCMaster550]

Another odd thing about this being set before Aliens, is the Colonial Marines apparently decided to phase out a Smartgun/Pulse Rifle hybrid with a gajillion rounds, in favor of a Pulse Rifle with 99 rounds and no assist.

[@dudesomething-xr7el]

I think if James Cameron’’s Aliens hadn’t had such huge success there wouldn’t have been so many subpar movies afterwards including this one.

[@treborkroy5280]

The queen ruined the franchise. Every sequel was about establishing a queen and a new hive. Turned an alien with an alien life cycle into space bug infestations.

[@nightelfuser]

@@treborkroy5280 The sequels were awful but you can't blame it all on the queen concept. Aliens 3 for example had nothing to do with the queen until the very last minutes. Prometheus didn't mention a queen either. The fault is on the writers who thought Alien was too big to fail. And now after so many F ups, the franchise is on life support.

[@treborkroy5280]

@@nightelfuser "It wasnt about the queen until it was." I feel like you're going to be stubborn on that point so I'll move on. I'm saying the introduction of the queen painted the alien into a corner it didn't belong to. It was a cosmic horror that was difficult if not impossible to really wrap your head around. Cameron took ALIEN, and then smashed elements of Starship Troopers into it and came out with ALIENS. The original alien lifecycle was one that could continue on and on no matter where it progressesed to or eventually went. The queen took a species that reproduced like a violent rapist that could spread like a virus to...a space insect infestation with a central, important spot, the queen stuck with a giant ovipositor in a "hive" There was no hive in ALIEN it was just how the alien would use a mutagen to break down lifeform to make more aliens. The "egg" only looked like. It was deceptive. Cameron took it's look and made it literal. The egg was a trap not a gestation thing. The egg held and protected the facehugger until it was near something to infect. I'll die on the hill that while yes the queen was a really great design a d was visually impressive. It took something alien and ultimately made it familiar. From unknowable cosmic horror into generic space bugs. ALIENS was just a knock off Starship Troopers before the actual film made by Paul V. made his adaptation of the novel.

[@philipcharleshogan6565]

​@@treborkroy5280 I like to imagine us both dying on seperate but close hills waving fists at each other. But, I both liked the Queen and don't think it made much difference to the alien lifecycle in the end. Although I'll grant you Bishops description of different bug colony types was a little too much. Alien 3 without the queen, is essentially the same movie. Alien ressurection would just be ripley being cloned and then the xenomorph eggmorphing more eggs, but in a lab - although granted the ending might be better without. Without a queen, they are essentially parasite insects instead of ants, although you'll note in the eggmorphing scene the egg/corpses were gathered and huddled together in a hive like structure. Even aliens wouldn't have changed much without a queen, lv426 still falls, the colonists are still turned into xenomorphs, newt would have still been taken to a hive for egg conversion, ripley would have still had to rescue her and maybe she would have avoided the whole mess on the ship. Also note that a shortened egg-morphing scene was in the directors cut and is in the novelisation, so is canon. Meaning both methods are viable.

[@treborkroy5280]

@@philipcharleshogan6565 Like I said. It was a cool design visually, but it was a lazy addition. Imagine a sequel to The Thing but it's Cameron directing. The Things are now flying at the screen squealing like pigs and being slaughtered by the dozens with automatic fire. And I the basement is oh no a The Thing Queen pumping out hundreds, nay, THOUSANDS of The Things oh no!. Yeah it was bad my guy. Nostalgia plays a huge part. ALIENS was my favorite until I got older and realized it was an early attempt at adapting Starship Troopers the novel more than a genuine ALIEN sequel. If the alien design was changed to look nothing like Gigers ALIEN and the movie was simply a space colony that found a space bug species that was dangerous, like you know Starship Troopers then it would be perfectly fine. Imagine the sequel to say Friday the 13th and and it's no longer horror, it's a fat lady pumping out baby Jason's and by the end of the film dozens of Jason's were shot to death. Yeah it sounds stupid and that's literally what happened to ALIENS. The extremely deadly and stealthy alien become retarded cannon fodder that suddenly just jumps out at people in groups. The redesign of the "warrior" was so bad no one ever continued that design outside of comic books. ALIENS even retreads the first films story beat for beat. God more I think of the movie and Cameron the more it's just awful.

[@aaronstately]

its there to complete the "Raised by Wolves" Tv show. you will see it when the TV show comes out and the Reamus movie comes out.

[@predalien1413]

Welp I love how this means the earth Queen is still there in the Antarctic.

[@0vermars520]

Shouldve been called, Aliens: Remember

[@fuferito]

On behalf of all Robot Head fans and subscribers to the channel, I'd like to salute his perseverance in suffering through cinematic mediocrity for our sakes, as well as enduring cyber laryngitis while narrating this episode.

[@RobotHead]

Cheers 😅👍

[@SlayerPDX]

This movie is killing it in the box office. You aliens fans and yes you clowns only ever want aliens over and over again... Still can't cope after prometheus

[@EbonyPope]

@@SlayerPDX So did crap like Transformers. It's a horrible movie. Get over it.

[@SlayerPDX]

Boo fucking hoo. Cry and cope harder

[@pens8766]

​@@SlayerPDXPrometheus bombed and so did Covenant

[@TheDreamfinder99]

I haven’t watched this drivel and nor will I but why the need to “reverse engineer” the alien when you could’ve gone to LV426 and taken your pick of aliens or facehuggers??

[@TheMetaphasicMonk]

I remember lining up to see Aliens at the Hoytt's cinema in Bourke Street Melbourne. They went to so much effort to recreate the Alien nest in the Foyer. It was such an exciting experience. This film was such a wasted opportunity. Instead of watching the greatest hits, I wanted a new album. "I like your old stuff better than your new stuff." BTW. Flavoured air is a thing??

[@ExMachina70]

I can't wait for Alien: Klingonus

[@Tim_Sviridov]

Alien: Qo'noS

[@NitpickingNerd]

what about Alien: Ferenginar

[@TomJenkins-u5f]

Edit out ALL the callback lines, cut most of 'Rook's' scenes (and hide the remaining ones in A LOT of shadow), switch the final monster to something more Xenomorphy and I'd be very happy with it.

[@jonesygrets6029]

Aliens greatest hits This film doesn’t exist in my head canon

[@ESO_PRIME]

Another fine example of “too many cooks in the kitchen”

[@chapeworks5148]

it’s Now That’s What I Call Alien. all the greatest hits of the previous movies in one convenient place!

[@tallyholightguy5353]

I appreciate this review so much because it bothers me too how much neglect ALIENS is getting. I am all for seeing the QUEEN XENO back in the films

[@yrooxrksvi7142]

The cast irritated me from the get go aside from Rain and Andy. When a horror movie doesn't make you care about the cast, it has already failed to raise stake. A bunch of whiny Zoomers that still act like teens will never be on par with experienced space truckers or colonial marines.

[@repletereplete8002]

Amen. The Nostromo crew feel like real people with distinct traits and are professional. The marines come across as a tight knit squad and again most of them have defining traits. The Romulus group are paper thin and most are instantly forgettable.

[@cvdm9663]

Once again demonstrates the quality that once was...

[@andrew3642]

@@cvdm9663 Underrated comment.

[@asherrfacee]

I’ve rewatched Alien and Aliens a dozen times. I really enjoyed Romulus, I think it might be the most terrifying of the series. But I agree that the story would make a lot more sense if it was set after the events of Aliens, not before it.

[@skennedy1893]

The last of us 2 in space

[@IVNHYPRFNK]

Alien came out before Last of Us

[@dylansmit3883]

​@@IVNHYPRFNK Alien Romulus didn't

[@Ob1sdarkside]

Michael Caine, legend.

[@kwisatzhaderach9591]

>thinking they'll make a new good Alien movie. That's as sad as thinking they'll ever make a new good Star Wars or Terminator movies.

[@CZJames20]

But this is a great Alien movie.

[@thebatman4279]

​@@CZJames20Can it really be classed as great though if the film isn't scary and the characters are naff?

[@CleverGirlAAH]

This is a competent mess...

[@joshuapatrick682]

Why do people from 30-40 years ago look 15-30 years older than their current day counterparts at the same age?

[@nanodeath2.0]

cigs

[@Simon-xc5oy]

@@nanodeath2.0 Yes. I was going to say the same thing. The smoking and heavy drinking. And now people in Hollywood go one of two ways. They either take perfect care of themselves and are super fit, follow strict diets and have plenty of makeup and fillers etc not available then, or they bomb out on booze and drugs to excess...its a coin toss as to which way it goes...

[@darylbeck6183]

Cigs, booze, drinking from a garden hose, sun tans, sports, one-night stands etc... instead of living in your bedroom staring at a screen

[@Carlosyabrudy]

@@joshuapatrick682 sigourney weaver was 28 in the first movie but she is WELL mature.

[@TrangleC]

There is a video somewhere on KZbin about that phenomenon. Seen it years ago and forgot what channel it was. Apparently it is mostly a illusion that comes from the fact that we associate out of fashion clothes and hair styles with old people, so people wearing those clothes and hairdos look older to us. In that documentary they demonstrated that by photoshopping modern clothes and hair styles on to pictures of teenagers from the 70s and earlier decades and they really didn't look as much older than contemporary people of same individual age.

[@lucymiau5700]

This Movie shows that it is possible to make great looking Cinema without massivly overblown budget by simply doing what is needed to make a plot happen. However, it also shows what happens if the writing is the weakest part of the whole Movie making process. You can copy and paste the right plot elements from other stories to create a Movie meal that people want to eat, but you create nothing that makes people want to eat it again the next time.

[@corrion1]

I really dont understand ridleys obsession with black goo lol

[@badlaamaurukehu]

It's a fetish.

[@Cabooseforprez2012]

honestly the mystery was always going to be more interesting than the answer. Once Scott made the answer though, he was going to shove it down our throat (pun intended there) till we accept it.

[@nerdoutreachprogram5358]

Before this movie came out I thought for sure the kids would have been residents of LV426, prior to the events of Aliens. Would have been easier to make the story make sense. Have the Romulus station in orbit around the planet due to the fact that the company received the info from the Nostromo and knew about the derelict on the planet.

[@jimbo9305]

A prequel set immediately before the events of Aliens would have been neat. It could tell the story of what happened at the colony on LV-426 after Newt's family discovered the derelict.

[@cheeks7050]

@@jimbo9305 that idea is far too smart for modern hollywood.

[@imnotatroll6301]

you coumment proves that any fan who has seen the movies could come with a far better script

[@Seras0]

As a huge Aliens lover, I just don't get how they keep screwing up the franchise this bad. (Well they've been screwing up all the franchises, so I do get it.) We already have the solution to how to continue. You make Aliens. You make a horror movie into an action movie with some horror elements. You stop messing with the past, and start looking to the future.

[@neatwheat]

I read someone once commenting that some franchises just don't lend themselves to sequels and prequels and Alien/Aliens would be one of thoses. I have to agree with that guy on the fact that those two initial movies are not just average haunted house and action horror movies but scifi movies that get their appeal from confronting the viewer with something shocking, new and mysterious with every new act of the movies. But when the audience knows everything about the creature and if you (like Ridley Scott with Prometheus) explain too much about where it comes from and its purpose the appeal, suspense and horror is gone and it becomes generic and repetitive

[@Armyjay]

I’m just gonna sit this one out. I went to see Alien & Aliens when the second one came out, at a cinema which was showing them both in one afternoon. I was in Blackpool on a weekender with some Squaddie mates - i was in the army at the time - and it pissed down with rain so we all decided to go somewhere dry. Its the best ‘Rain Stopped Play’ - to use a cricket terminology - afternoon i ever had.

[@PapaWooody]

Ash/Rook is literally a Robot Head! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@christophercatiller2422]

Little known fact: the US military trains soldiers to use weapons with COD tournaments and reading magazines. I should know. I was there. 😉

[@bradical6019]

Ridley Scott's ego has no bounds

[@SlayerPDX]

Really? Its all you fake alien fans that really only like ALIENS that have the ego issues.

[@henriquedaguiar8747]

"Egoo"

[@jollygoodfellow3957]

Ridley Scott wants to make Aliens non-canon. He just can't do it explicitly for the backlash he would get.

[@giovannyalpizar5351]

I made that connection when I saw the wreckage of the Nostromo. "Is this the same idea as the Death Star surviving?" The piece of invincible metal saying "Nostromo" is like the perfectly intact superlaster focus frame of the Death Star. Big Chap surviving this somehow really looks like they took a note from Anakin and Palpatine at the end of Return of the Jedi. I felt like it was heading out the window not even halfway after the first scene when the cocoon was recovered.

[@jackkoffin1]

Agreed. Romulus starts off pretty promising, but the story completely nosedives the second Rook starts info-dumping the history of Alien. As soon as the exposition monologue began I mentally checked out of the movie.

[@wangson]

Well, I've absolutely got to agree with that ridiculous and hilariously "off-looking" Ash robot! It looks completely animated - as if it's from a completely different film! A puppet/cartoon-movie! Seeing how poorly the recreation of the "Ash" character was done, completely took me out of the picture which up until then, was pretty decent.

[@NerdBiz]

Best review/ piece on this film by miles - excellent

[@arbiter8246]

4:45 They were making a lot of noise that’s why the face huggers ran after them.

[@jasoncoward-aintscared]

Weren't you told not to ask questions, just consume product. I'm afraid I'll have to contact hr. 😎

[@bkatbamna]

Spot on. They tried to distract the audience for the poor narrative in the 2nd and 3rd acts by going hard on recreating scenes from the other better Alien movies.

[@kri249]

Romulus has the same problem as Star Wars (other than being owned by Disney) in that they try to incorporate elements of every movie in the franchise. Instead of being its own thing worthy to be placed among the rest as stand alone films it just becomes an homage to the franchise as a whole, reminding us of better movies before it.

[@gc3k]

1979 Sigourney could play 2024 Cailee's mother despite a 2 year age difference. Is it the microplastics?

[@thebatman4279]

Tbf Sigourney Weaver is 6 foot tall and Cailee looks about 5 foot.

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

Well, as humans live longer lives with each younger generation, we don't age quite as noticeably as the generations that came before us.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

​@@BioGoji-zm5phAlso, life and even childhood was rougher on people back then before these permanant Pampers wearing generations. In the 70's half of Hollywood men had been drafted in one war or another and actually played outside as kids.

[@larrytalbot3824]

Frustrating is a good way to put it, I was also enjoying the slow build, but as you pointed out, there are a great deal of plot points that don’t make sense, for eg. If this project was so important to the company that they went to all that trouble to get their hands on this creature, why weren’t they looking for that space station facility when it all went to hell & later drifted into orbit around one of their own mining planets?, was no one looking for it? & tbh, I wasn’t so much horrified by the Ash/Rook android as much as I was distracted by it, it came across more like as if they’d built a puppet, animatronic Ian Holm that probably didn’t work as convincingly as they’d hoped it would on camera & then in post decided to deep fake/Ai his face onto the og puppet face, which just resulted in this bizarre, hand-puppet jerky effect. The cast I found mostly forgettable, the Andy character being the only stand out & the kid with the headband was annoying as hell, I couldn’t _wait_ for him to get killed. Also, when the aliens do show up, they were strangely lacklustre compared with the earlier versions, almost timid, another problem, something that started with the AvP films, is with the speeding up of the aliens lifecycle to the point where a facehugger now has barely any contact with a host & they’re impregnated, also, I wasn’t a fan of their darker redesigned look or the fact that as you pointed out you can sneak past them if your body & room temp match!? not to mention these things were established as being extremely strong & fast, yet this ‘Hollyoaks’ gang were swatting them off & throwing them aside like they were flies.😂 It did over all feel a bit like ticking off a list of plot ‘to dos’ & fan & gamer wish elements on a big whiteboard at the end of a writer’s room table & as for the Ridley revenge theory, I wouldn’t be surprised, after all another James Cameron addition to the alien lore that has been conspicuous in its absence since RS got his hands on the series again, is the alien queen.

[@wavertone]

fede made what ripley originally wanted, 'texas chainsaw massacre in space', the cast worked perfectly to that end.

[@chrisgermann6658]

Using the likeness of a man who is no longer with us and without his consent...for obvious reasons i find quite distasteful. But then we are talking about hollywood. rest in peace Ian you was a national treasure and amazing actor.

[@Pyke_]

This story has more holes than the Nostromo ship

[@tim1843]

Dude, you're spot on. There are so many problems story and timeline wise.

[@AtropalArbaal-dk8jv]

Ridley Scott's revenge, against US...

[@noelv1976]

I agree with the use of Rook. They even mentioned it in Aliens that this particular android was defective, yet they continued using him for research purposes? I was also asking who tf placed the camera in front of him? Where did he find it? How is he able to communicate with the rest of the ship? Shit made no sense! And don't get me started with the gravity plot armor!

[@jamesbee3087]

How did the Nostromo survive its ships core being nuked?

[@jljl5449]

I didn't find Rook distracting. The fact he gave you a sense of uncanny valley actually worked in this instance. It added to the unsettling feeling you get in this environment.

[@frankthecat1660]

Mental gymnastics level 9000

[@jljl5449]

@@frankthecat1660 do you even know what uncanny valley is?

[@frankthecat1660]

@@jljl5449 it's when something looks just off enough not to be believed as real.

[@jljl5449]

@frankthecat1660 lol. Another example of the saying, "Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt." What uncanny valley actually is: "The uncanny valley is a psychological and aesthetic phenomenon that describes the feeling of unease or disgust people experience when something appears almost human but isn't quite."

[@frankthecat1660]

Right on bro. It looked fake and AI generated. Didn't make me feel uneasy, just looked like cheap lazy shit.

[@originaldissident151]

That android surprised me at first I thought what a shit android act 😂 boy I was wrong, the android was the highlight. What an actor. The last throwback line made me facepalm hard and then the goo Fuck

[@BaggeyTrowsers-w2n]

20 somethings today are like teen-agers of yesterday. They are soft, fresh - faced, with beautiful skin. I envy them

[@skitbash]

I loved the film. I'm an 80s kid, seen every single alien film. This is number 3 for me.

[@khamankhoma8232]

This, like many of Ridley Scott's recent films, feels less like a genuine attempt at making cinema and more like a desperate attempt to stay culturally relevant. Between this and the lazily named Gladiator 2, it feels more like the man's just out to remind everyone that he's still around.

[@enzopied3015]

Maybe look up more about the film before you attribute it to him. Sure, he birthed the franchise and created a couple sequels but this is most definitely not his film

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

Ridley isn't trying to stay relevant,he is trying to delay the reaper.His brother stopped making movies and killed himself and now he thinks he will do the same.

[@MostlyBuicks]

If revenge means producing a terrible movie that further insults Alien fans, then you are right. I will take Prometheus and Covenant with all their faults, over this POS any day.

[@rahulkunche7934]

The moment they did that iconic dialogue I lost it. They could have done it tastefully. Just a simple "Get. . Away from her". . Enough to make us fans smile but not grimace. . Word to word it made no fucking sense why an Android would make an awkward pause diss at a goddamn xenomorph about to kill his ward

[@Knuck_Knucks]

Almost didn't watch this. The R B pointed out crap everyone else missed! Good show sir. 🐿

[@dinopots6282]

Finally a reviewer that knows what they're talking about. You sir, get my sub.

[@RobotHead]

Cheers my Man 👍

[@dinopots6282]

@@RobotHead did you notice the film was a reskinned prometheus 3? After discussions with mates, It seems to us that Ridley took his script from his cancelled prometheus movie and reskinned it. That's why the droid has way more knowledge than it should, as its just the David droid from prometheus reskinned. It also explains that abysmal faceomorph at the end that looks like Mark Zuckerberg lmao 🤣 Why couldn't they have just given us a live action praetorian. 🙄

[@davidm4566]

So Alien 3 and every other sequel, is the stasis fever dream of Ripley from her time in the pod after Aliens, and this movie is the stasis fever dream of Ripley from her time in the pod after Alien.

[@FrankFurankisanBall]

Producer Scott can't let go of his terrible idea of black goo and hybrids. It's the reason why Prometheus and Convenant sucked so bad. To hell with the Engineers, stick with the Alien for crying out loud. Great video BTW wow that fan service really went overboard.

[@ruslankoller9891]

Prometheus was great, partially because it didn't have alien. You can't scare the audience twice with the same monster. This is why making aliens into an action movie was a good idea at the time.

[@fgeiger41]

Wait a second. Ever since saw Aliens I thought the company knew more than they were letting on and were just playing Ripley. They didn't event care that she was found which was one of the main reasons to send her back into the line of fire.

[@Samaritan38]

They were paid for fiddling Ripley for an angry fool.

[@FoolKillerDread]

I thought Cameron approached FOX about making a sequel to Alien. And he had to prove himself with Terminator first before he was a allowed to make Aliens. So maybe Ridley should have reached out like Cameron did, if this is true.

[@cineturon]

This is a true story - during the pitch meeting for Aliens, Cameron wrote the title on his presentation as "Alien$" , and it worked :)

[@BubbaGunShrimp]

The baby alien scene disturbed me.

[@artblack01]

Don't forget the hybrid looks exactly like the creature from the movie Splice.

[@bigblue207]

The positive things you can say about this movie are warranted, that it looks honestly incredible especially in theaters and has fun set pieces and a great dynamic between the main two characters. But it feels to me like people really overhype those factors. I used to be all about fan service, especially with the marvel movies. It was fun to see nods that served as inside jokes between the communities that had followed these franchises for years. But oh my God, marvel is to blame for how oversaturated it is now and how it permeates everything. As others keep pointing out this movie is just a “greatest hits” to the point you want to watch the originals more because this movie offers nothing different. I’m not sure why there’s this obsession in Hollywood with skeleton plots, like they almost feel forced to write some kind of narrative no matter how flimsy to justify a movie. If there’s nothing to tell, don’t tell anything. 80% of the main cast impacted the film in literally no way, to instantly be forgotten, and even the main two end up exactly where they began the movie. It really wouldn’t be a problem if they devoted so much screen time to trying to give these characters some background to ultimately do nothing with it. It’s an interesting contrast that by rejuvenating the vibes of the original movie so aggressively, and when it reminds you how that movie didn’t really have a “plot”, how much better it worked. The characters were total archetypes with basically no background. Ripley herself was a pretty secondary character until right around when Dallas died. I think the audience really took to her because of her actions alone, we didn’t need to know snippets of her family history, she was just a normal person with survival instincts in a situation audiences hadn’t imagined before. Knowing that some British dude’s mom may have been killed because of a synthetic’s apathy is absolutely useless and wasteful information, especially in this movie. Even the whole thing about naming it “Romulus” and having that painting which foreshadowed the end, sure that’s cool, it really is not important enough to pretend this is a smart or meaningful movie. There is no throughline and theme other than the one you choose to give it (which you can say about any form of art - that’s why it’s so valuable but also so frustrating, because especially with today’s Hollywood, writers and directors can avoid the responsibility of taking a bold stance and proclaiming it since the audiences will do it for them, and they’ll even cover both sides of an issue or topic anyway while using the same praise to justify it). So it’s just funny in how much it was trying to replicate the original, and it did it in the most superficial ways when in reality the lesson it should have learned was how to cut the fat and what it should even be about. Alien was not about the crew, it was about the alien. Romulus made complete jokes out of the xenomorphs and even facehuggers, for the sole purpose of trying to make the new characters relatable, and in the end it kills off most of them quickly and unceremoniously when the original movie did a much better job of making relatable characters almost specifically because that wasn’t its focus at all. They were so archetypal, and the situation was so spontaneous and within such a short time frame, they felt like believable people because we were just plopped in the situation alongside them and all we had to know was the ways they acted in the midst of being stalked by the killer alien. The original creators trusted the audience enough to be able to follow along. It’s a sucky trend in today’s Hollywood that “tell, don’t show” is lauded as “great storytelling” when really it’s just saying “you the audience are too dumb to understand nuance so we’re going to waste runtime explicitly laying out an incomplete narrative for you and you will eat it up and sing our praises for us because we convinced you to do so with pretty marketing and callbacks and meeting the absolute bare minimum of your standards”. Quite honestly, I think if movies like Shawshank, godfather, pulp fiction, even the original alien were released today, they wouldn’t be nearly as popular. It doesn’t speak to the quality of the movie, it speaks to the standard the general audience has decided on (as in much much lower). Good movies challenge audiences, but people today don’t have the attention span or motivation to try and understand subtlety. It’s enough to name your new entry in a legacy franchise after some myth and include a vague allusion to it that can be ascribed any meaning, and people will fall in love with it so quickly they’ll be calling you the modern Shakespeare even though you really did nothing.

[@rahulkunche7934]

Despite its glaring flaws and dumb characters and constant referencing, the visuals were spot on, the thrills were done well and we were rooting for the android and human by the end. Good action movie. Even if not an excellent Alien film.

[@whaguitars]

If you guys haven't seen 'Matchstick Men' I highly recommend it. It stars Nicholas Cage and Sam Rockwell as con men and is directed by Ridley Scott and is one of his best films!

[@jamesbee3087]

It makes total sense to place this movie between alien and aliens. Nostalgia

[@smrii2487]

"Likeable cast" Literally all DEI POCs. Robot head so subverted he doesn't even realize it

[@Ancientreapers]

1:40 Hollywood likes and prefers them young. I'll just leave it at that.

[@scepteredisle]

25 year old young? is that what you mean? OK.

[@shawklan27]

I read a comment the other day in where they mentioned how this film is the rogue one of the alien franchise and that couldn't have ringed better if it tried. Like both had this flaw of having these annoyingly noticeable callbacks and revivng a dead actor through the power of shitty cgi that it takes away from a otherwise solid movie. I feel that this film will be looked upon less fondly after the hype dies down.

[@stevealford230]

It boggles my mind that people think Rogue One was good. They're mostly the same idiots who think that it was a plothole when the Death Star exploded, They can't grasp the fact that if you shoot an explosive into a reactor, the reactor will blow in an uncontrolled massive reaction OR if the projectile falls short of the reactor and merely blocks its exhaust, the same thing will happen because it will overheat and go critical. No... those morons needed the WORST contrivance in movie history: the architect designed a "*hit me with a missile to blow up the whole station* Button" inside an exhaust port... *facepalm*

[@r.g.c.3897]

@@stevealford230 I've never really seen anyone saying Rogue One was good, rather most do say it was the best of the Disney Star Wars films (which isn't saying much). Personally I would like to have seen what the original Writer/Director had created before Disney fired him and remade half the film to be more in line with Kathleen Kennedy's "vision".

[@The_Lucent_Archangel]

@@stevealford230 It's the people who know nothing of the EU and think that it being thrown out / consigned to "Legends" was a great idea, despite the fact Disney keeps cherrypicking things from it to put in their productions and ruin. The original explanation for the plans being stolen was thanks to the Chuck Norris of Star Wars, Kyle Katarn. But having a straight white male help enable another one to blow the Death Star up is a no-no in modern Star Wars. If anything, Rogue One cheapened Luke's accomplishment with "Hey look, these randos we concocted out of nowhere all perished so the Rebels could get the plans".

[@stevealford230]

@@The_Lucent_Archangel Even in the 90s, people in the media/critics were repeating and spreading the stupid idea that the Death Star explosion was a plot hole... that's the ENTIRE reason why R1 was made: because the morons at Disney didn't know how a reactor works and had been told by idiots for 30 years that the explosion made no sense. ... and then after having that premise, they applied the principles of DEI to writing the script and casting the dumb movie based on the dumb premise of "fixing a (nonexistent) plot hole."

[@Simon-xc5oy]

@@r.g.c.3897 Yes Rogue One is just ok and the best of the utter crap Disney has made. It feels more Star Wars as its set just before the original film which helps. It was also a complete debacle with re writes, and reshoots and the usual chaos during filming that has become the norm under Kennedy, it started here. There was no real need to include Tarkin at all, and it would have been better if instead of Krennic it was Vader. It should have been Vaders film with him chasing down the plans as that is what he was doing in the original film / A New Hope . Instead he gets a tiny scene at the end...and the whole film could have been like that with Vader cutting through Rebels and hunting down the leaked plans that would have been awesome to see....Instead of political games from Krennic and black armoured troopers, I would have rather seen Vader in the suit being lethal...

[@ilnikogo7034]

Now that the “machine” is running, let’s remove 3 and 4 from canon, and remake the third the right way(because the movie had a great idea, developed really badly)😆.

[@caradinegeorge]

It's quite clear that humanity's devoid of any ounce of originality. Alien Romulus was ok up until they started rehashing scenes and lines of dialogue from previous films. This movie brought absolutely nothing new on the table. Nothing new added in terms of story, universe, dialogue or characters. Good thing Alien 3 exists so this series has an actual ending and you're not forced to see anything after it. Although Alien 4 is a guilty pleasure, an Alien involuntary comedy that still makes me laugh.

[@evan71211]

Ash was in Ripley's escape craft the whole time. Read alien out of the shadows. The company knew everything the whole time.

[@chapeworks5148]

it’s also a retread of the writer director’s previous film DONT BREATHE- group of young idiots with a slightly more moral female lead who decide to break into and burgle a location in which there’s a monster that wants to impregnate them to extend its family and kill them in brutal fashion- and they can’t make noise or said monster will find them. bolt that onto Alien Ressurection with a space lab experimenting on aliens to create a new human alien hybrid for the finale, toss in the black goo from Prometheus and play the greatest hits of the other films including the almost incomprehensible and useless British supporting cast of criminals from Alien 3. there’s literally no original ideas in this film.

[@Pneumanon]

That scene of them sneaking past the facehuggers felt very derivative of other recent horror movie ideas to me.

[@SlayerPDX]

The acid in zero G..the X-Ray gun. There were original and unique ideas..stop crying and just go watch aliens again because that's what you clowns really want over and over again

[@chapeworks5148]

raising body temperature was also a steal from the first Mission Impossible classic Langley vault break in scene and nowhere near as tense. Again, no original ideas and cribbing off other better films.

[@captain1432]

I genuinely enjoyed the entirety of Alien Romulus. Yes, there are quite a few homages to the Alien from 1979, but I think it's been long enough since then and it's okay to recycle some concepts with modern filmmaking. I really liked the overall vibe of the movie. I also found it plausible as well as intriguing how the story unfolded - which can't be said about a lot of stories these days, especially in the Sci Fi genre.

[@Toshiro93]

In terms of scenography, sets, practical effects and costumes and the direction of many scenes, it could take home an 8, even a 9 out of 10 if seen in the cinema: the sequences approaching the station, or those on the colony, or even the scene in which the shuttle detaches from the Romulus which crashes onto the ice ring, like a sort of space Titanic, are really very, very beautiful. I must then compliment the recovery of the retro-futuristic technology of the first two films (especially the first), as well as the excellent use of animatronics and actors in costume. It is on the narrative front that, in my point of view, the film stands out: the first part, the one without xenomorphs, is paradoxically the one I liked the most, but from when the boys arrive on the station a decisive decline begins, with some nice sequences, but nothing that can sustain the entire film (I'm also just thinking about the characterization of the group apart from Andy and his sister [the latter rather good, however], where one - Bjorn - continually takes the piss out of 'android who will have to act as his nanny for 9 years. Even with the explanation a little further on, the behavior is too much like a B-movie from the mid-2000s); or I think of the blatant references to Alien and Aliens in the dialogues (superfluous), or even of the fact that the operation to recover the Engineers' technology (the black goo) is far too absurd: not only does it clash with what we have seen of the WY technology up to to this moment, but also with the information provided by the films themselves. If the company knows about the Prometheus expedition, why didn't they go directly to LV-223 to retrieve the urns, while they went to such trouble to recover a xenomorph drifting in space? Then when I learned that one of the girls was pregnant, I thought "okay. Let's see how long it takes to get her pregnant", and I didn't go very far... let's not even talk about the fact that she injects herself with the black fluid, when not she is in immediate danger of her life, nothing that suggests an injury so serious that she cannot think and condemn herself and the fetus. Then speaking of the hybrid: in my opinion, the ugliest beast (and not in a positive sense) of the saga, with absurd justifications to make it become a "sensible" threat. It would have been better to recover Fifield's xenomorphic version of Prometheus at this point. Ultimately, is this Romulus worth 10 euros? No: it's good, if not excellent on a technical level, but on a narrative front it's almost lower than Covenant, and it doesn't beat it just because the latter was directed by what was once a monster director.