Alien: Romulus - Movie Review
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Chris Stuckmann reviews Alien: Romulus, starring Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu. Directed by Fede Alvarez.
If a Facehugger lands on Chris, does it mean that it gets Stuckmannized?
No but
Chris grew up with Aliens Romulus
The facehugger would then give birth to Stuckmanmorph.
Can you imagine a xenomorph giving you a movie review before it second-mouthed your skull? 😂😂
Best comment ever.
Lol
Hands down the android guy gave one of the best acting performances I have seen in years. In my opinion he should get an Oscar just for that role. He was damn good!
No.
@@arcaneisboring7675so much insight wow 😂
Hahahahahaha!!😂😂😂😂
A black man without forcing him to be black is well written...hmm it should always be like this for diversity
Agreed
3rd act of this movie is NUTS
Total mess. They stuck all 6 films in a blender and threw it at the wall to see what would stick.
Crap*
@@agentblackacidwith all gen z actors to boot.. The cringe factor was awful I'm afraid.. I felt it was a repeat as well.. Not many fresh ideas. And repeating those lines from previous alien films is dreadful.. Why, just why even do it.. It smashes the 4th wall imo
@todgerx the cast was the worst part, like watching the divergent series
@@todgerx so your mad because there are younger actors in the movie? Right okay your going to hate the next 20 years of movies 🤣
The problem with Prometheus, and to a lesser extent Covenant wasn’t the big ideas, it was the rampant character stupidity.
Defo. Come here and stick your head over this big ominous looking egg. Nothing bad will happen. I promise.
Right? I'm a scientist with a PhD. Let me touch this crazy snake monster that just emerged from this sludge substance. Solid plan.
This is exactly correct. It was the script that was rough, not the big ideas. It’s actually a brilliant movie when it comes to the ideas presented. It’s the character decisions and dialogue that bog it down sadly.
That, and the "big ideas" were just ancient aliens crap presented in an unbelievably pretentious way.
cut the snake and zombie scene and you've got a perfect movie lol. I have rewatched Prometheus more now than any other movie in the franchise.
Someone needs to greenlight a brutal Dead Space film. Fede directing with Glen Schofield producing.
Yooooo I agree.
😮 yoooo facts
This I can get behind, but it needs a good Isaac
Fede directing with John Carpenter and Glen Schofield producing
YES
Chris mentions the feeling of Dead Space and its connection to Alien.
Isolation: Am I a joke to you?
It’s closer to resurrection than isolation
They had a scene in the movie that’s right out of Isolation when they were opening the airlock door that’s the same way you do it in the game.
@@alexanderguerrero347 in terms of immersive horror and suspense its much closer to isolation
ikr, how could he not mention alien's own game
@@Lucas11061 Cause he never played it. Nobody did. That's the reason it failed so miserably.
Calling it Don't Breathe in Space has me imagining that the Xenomorph is hiding a pregnant Predator in the ship's lower decks.
I’m sure there will be numerous um… pregnancies in this movie.
wellp...
@@brandonhiebert2012Disturbing pregnancies...
Dude!
😂😂good one
Personally I always felt that the real secret of ‘Alien’ was that it was a simple, well-made horror flick that just happened to take place in space. Similar to how the secret to ‘Terminator’ was that it was a simple, well-made horror flick that just happened to have a robot as the killer. The reason these franchises tend to lose their sauce is because adding lore and big ideas, while intriguing, just take away the ambiguity that made its horror factor effective in the first place.
The concept of Alien is also perfect for horror, just look at Alien Isolation.
I preferred the Alien when we had no idea what the hell it was. It starts representing a different kind of horror when the sequel adds a queen and a hive structure. It goes from 'what even is this, what does its existence say about what we thought to be true?' to 'holy shit that is a lot of murder-machines, game over man, game over!'. Which is still a valid kind of scary but a lot less interesting to me.
Alien isolation boring I no L take from me right but In aliens you are vulnerable also at times you are powerful I don't want to sneak around all the time maybe some of the game which id fair but for me I want an alien story game more like aliens the second movie but not as bad as the newest release basically fighting hordes with no plot so maybe somewhere in the middle just my opinion I no people be like it was a masterpiece not fore not my cup of meth
They never should have explained the Xenomorphs beyond what happened in Aliens
@@AllHailDiskordia That right there is the money shot.
this video legit felt like it was more about the sponsor than it was an alien romulus review
I came here for the tv ad
Yup, sadly that’s like 75% of TH-cam content seriously. It is so frustrating man
It was less than 15% of the video...
Holy shit that was a long ad compared to the video length
Yup. Which is why I stopped the video at about 1:20 and blocked the channel.
Keep that shit shorter or put it at the end! There are channels out that handle that crap a lot better.
"But before we go any further I want you to skip ahead 60 seconds"
Saint
Thank ya kindly
lol exactly
😂😂😂
my ad block just fast forwards those parts
I also liked Prometheus a lot more than other people, but my favorite thing in the Alien franchise since the original Alien movie wasn't even a movie. it was Alien: Isolation, a video game. It captured the feeling of the movies so well, and it's a shame there likely will never be a sequel.
Prometheus suffered because many Christians were offended.
Played Isolation in VR, until I couldn't any more. One of the most terrifying things...
@@cac1504 no, prometheus suffered because the plot was full of holes and the characters were dumb as fuck.
@@cac1504i as a christian liked the movie because I understand its a scifi movie and i like the alien universe, i felt it was mostly well done. Though now looking back it seemed to mirror the original alien movie pretty closely.
remember ailen was riddlys second ever movie he did coming from a period drama to a horror sci-fi horror movie so he had to learn how to buid tention from waching halloween and tcm and other horror movie's
I didn't dislike Prometheus because it didn't have the xenomorph. What bugged me was the fact that Weyland managed to crew his ship with the most profoundly stupid scientists possible, and the fact that nobody involved in the films production could make up their minds as to whether or not it was an alien movie. Like, clearly.
Yup, and they all travelled to the Engineer's secret weapons facility, that for some reason the Engineers had left them directions to...that film made zero sense.
It was a symbolic and occultic film, you are too superficial to see it.
@@RubenWalsh-iv5ik Nah.
Without a word of a lie, the first thing I said to my mate as I walked out of the cinema was 'I feel like I've just watched the last season of Lost'
It was only later I found out that Damon Lindelof had employed his random never-fully-explored- ideas gatling gun on both scripts. Just spraying loose-ends and character inconsistencies about like there's no tomorrow.
Then it all made sense...the similarities...not the plot...of either.
The 3hr extended cut of Prometheus legit fixes all problems and is an epic sci-fi on a par with Alien.
@@willbox8802I will have to watch! I genuinely enjoy Prometheus so I will have to download the extended version!
Review starts here at 1:43 for those bored of sponsors.
Less than 5 minutes talking about the movie is kind of a let down.
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I was starting to wonder if there was even a review of the movie😂
@@Maurício.9215 I wasn't trying to be a jerk. It's just, the video was short as it is. And then you add a sponsor in the beginning and it's less than 5 minutes? Like, come on.
@@kannon0216 no, I get it. I don't like the ads either. And after that we get such a thin review. Felt like an obligation. "I need to run this ad so maybe I'll talk a bit about Alien: Romulus".
Man, Fede Alverez is just the perfect filmmaker for an Alien movie. And I’m even happier that Cailee Spaeny’s in the lead role, bro. I love her!
Chris grew up with Aliens Romulus
I love how Fede uses intense realism. He's all about props and prosthetics without much CGI for his horror elements. Definitely paved good justice for Evil Dead imo.
For real she is so talented and very unique and pretty ❤
Met her working on a short film before she blew up in Hollywood. Can confirm she's a super nice lady!
Yeah but is he a good storyteller?
The Gravity part was so simple yet genius. Ah how come nobody thought of using it in the previous Alien movies. 😅
I know right could have killed the alien queen easy with no gravity lol
that scene was so underrated. Fantastic temporary counter to the xeno acid blood. And it was properly set up. Fluctuations in gravity were established as a thing they could control. And the restriction on using the pulse rifles to kill the xenos in that specific environment due to it being the lowest level.
It was pretty stupid. Just because there's no gravity does not mean there's no momentum. All the aliens would still have landed in her face after being shot. Instead they magically turn into clouds of blood.
that scene made no sense, xenomorphs could easily traverse in antigravity , hate that part the most
@@xic777 um no if that was the case the two Aliens Ripley blasted out the airlocks would have just came back to the ships.
I don't think the problem with Prometheus was the lack of Aliens. It was that the ideas were not well thought out, and the characters were unbelievably stupid.
Glad you said it. I enjoyed the movie the most when the scientist characters were being scientists/explorers. There was a degree of wonder and awe but then turned into a goofy slasher film once they started dying.
Yes, this. Exactly this.
Hitchcock said that the three most important things to make a good movie are the script, the script, and the script. Prometheus and Covenant didn't get those right.
Agreed. Obviously, Alien fans want to see xenomorphs, but the it could have been a good movie if it just wasn't so stupid.
Still a great film tho
@@scottjones6283 It's utter garbage.
Prometheus was a very underrated movie. LOVED it. Hope we can get more from that Universe at some point soon as well.
Covenant expanded on it a little more not much
@@ryans413Covenant took every interesting idea from Prometheus and tossed it away
Yes. Prometheus is memorable. Romulus, not so much. It's just a greatest hits of previous Alien movies executed no so competently.
You'd have to be an advanced cretin to write a statement like that.
Most people didn't criticize Prometheus just because it lacked a xenomorph. They criticized it because the writing was absolutely horrible. Every human character made the dumbest decision available to them at the time, over and over and over until they were all dead. Many of these people were allegedly scientists intelligent enough to go on what most of them thought might be a first contact mission, a historic moment for humanity, but they acted like 7 year olds.
Like those teo ladys running in a straight line when the ship was falling
@@jbox6315 My wife and I still reference "Prometheus running" from time to time.
Prometheus is good 😤
This is dumber and more boring than Prometheus which I like! The scene where they're sneaking past the face huggers... he can have a full conversation without them instantly attacking??? That whole zero G sequence at end so many issues with that. The alien hybrid thing at end fully grown in minutes??? Dumb
@@shinycheeto5779the alien xenomorph maturing quickly was canon since Alien (1979). It happened there, too.
Is Romulus perfect? No. But neither were Alien and Aliens. Romulus is much closer to the feel and spirit of those original two than any of the following sequels (Alien 3 though Covenant).
My problem withe Prometheus and Covenant is the terrible storytelling. Beautiful films, interesting concepts, but narratively superficial. Dumb and flat characters who have zero character growth or likeability (no one to root for), plot threads that go nowhere (the space jockeys storyline introduced and promptly abandoned in Prometheus, black goo, possible jockey fleet) that amount to nothing (all dead at once in a flashback sequence in Covenant with no narrative investment; none of them must have been anywhere else in the universe for all of them to have been annihilated in a single attack), etc. Even the David storyline makes no sense. Clearly a take in the android storyline from Alien (1979) but with no real focus or direction. David’s dialogue was like listening to a drunk friend’s stream of consciousness. And the advanced and somehow cleaner tech even though prometheus and covenant took place long before Alien broke continuity for me. Sure, one could argue space truckers vs company researchers will have different quality tech. But why would “old” tech (prometheus) still be so much more advanced than “current” tech in Alien/Aliens/Alien3. Romulus understood this, and did it right.
As a longtime fan of the franchise (saw Aliens in theaters, played the arcade game in arcades, read the comics in the 90s, etc), I loved Romulus. I did not like the callbacks (“get away from her…”), but the movie itself had a story to tell beyond just another rehash of Alien. It expanded on the world building of the terraformers and miners exploited by WY, who we only briefly saw in Aliens extended scenes.
But at its core, Alien is a scifi horror franchise. It does well in that lane. Prometheus and Covenant are to Alien, what Rings of Power is to Lord of the Rings. Superficially similar, but they really tried too hard to a reinvent a wheel that was already close to perfect.
@@von4297 been a fan of the series since I was teenager. Read some of the comics and all that. Prometheus and Covenant were interesting new directions for the series to me. Romulus does nothing new outside of some set pieces. It’s boring and redundant. It’s the most shallow film in the franchise. There’s no story. It’s just scares. If I wanted to relive those old moments then I’d just rewatch the originals. It’s even outdone in the gore department by Scott’s latest entries in the series. So it doesn’t have that going for it either.
It’s not an awful movie. The sets and practical effects are good. But i have no desire to rewatch it and i was mostly bored watching it. I just find it funny that people complain about the others being dumb when this one requires same amount of suspension of disbelief than previous entries if not more.
It’s literally force awakens for the Alien franchise. I guess I just have to wait for the reevaluation for Prometheus and Covenant like how people used to hate the prequels for Star Wars
Review starts at 1:43mins
Was just going to post same
God bless you
No shit!
Thank you
Let Chris get his bag
For the first time, I can directly attribute a trailer to me going to the theater... That scene with the xenomorph blood in zero-gravity as a character glides towards it is genius. Absolutely diabolical if it pays off in the way I suspect after hearing your review.
I watched it. It's a great iconic scene. You'll love it.
my favorite scene.
It's an amazing sequence in the film. Extremely well done.
Sucker...... That trailer you saw must have been so good it brainwashed you into believing this tripe of an Alien movie was maybe the second worst of the franchise
@@krystoferbelknap806 yeah it's a shot stolen straight from the Total Recall remake to even include when rain has to move she fires her gun in the same exact way that Colin Farrell did in the Total Recall reboot
First of all the film was absolutely BRILLIANT. I recommend everyone who’s a fan of alien and horror and thriller in general to watch… however, I must say, the actor who played Andy was PHENOMENAL… I hope he gets plenty of attention from this. My entire group who I went to watch with at the cinema all said the same thing after we came out and shared our thoughts. His performance was truly incredible. Great film and a much needed win for our beloved alien franchise. It’s definitely one of my new favourites
The main girl lead was good to
Ive loved Alien since i was a little kid. This movie had a few good aspects, but ended up being the opposite of subtle with all of the cheap jumpscares and the cheap reuse of iconic lines. Andy made it bearable to watch, and the third act was a breath of fresh air for horror. The rest of the movie was pretty bad in my opinion
No it wasnt a great movie! It was ok, nothing really special in it.
@@ryans413I Agree. I should have mentioned the female lead. She was excellent
Not brilliant
As long as Romulus gives me the dread of watching Alien: Isolation gameplay, I should have fun with this movie. Hell, the early clips feature cameos by Isolation's wall save points.
It's not. And ALIENS > some video game
@@SmokeNGunsBBQthat “some video game” is better than most of the movies
@@SmokeNGunsBBQold head here
It dose
It did for me. The ending though. You won’t be ready for that 😂😂😂 honestly I think it’s why people are pissed
That 'Dead Space-Alien paradox' mention made me smile. I can relate to it so much. Love both franchises to the core!
Fede 100% loves the ideas of Prometheus. holy shit that last part of the movie. everyone in the theatre gasped.
They likely gasped at the stupidity of it all. It was schlock fan-service horror.
@@lesktubeThe rest of the movie was a near carbon copy of Alien 1 though. Without this last part, there would have been zero creativity and personal input aside from the one gravity scene Chris talked about.
Just think about it for a bit and you realize it's true. People then would have said the movie is unoriginal and a pure ripoff.
Hearing there’s some Dead Space influence makes me so happy.
Would love a Dead Space movie someday by a competent studio.
Lionsgate could do it
Love that Cailee Spaeny has getting good work these days. I absolutely adore her in Bad Times At The El Royale, Priscilla increased my interest on her talent a lot more so I promise myself I'll watch any movie that she's in. So happy that she's part of the third Knives Out movie cast
Bad Times at the El Royale is such a sleeper hit, imo. Nobody I talk to has seen it and it was such a phenomenally well made movie with a stellar cast.
Just watched Civil War the other day. She was great.
Spaeny is a good actress, but after Priscilla I can't help to look at her career in a very different light. They just grabbed the shortest and youngest looking actress they could find and paired her with the tallest actor they could find to keep her looking like a child and that is creepy af, I wonder how many roles she is getting just because she looks like a child, I mean we all know how Hollywood is
Yep she is blowing all the right directors.
@@issacclark6109 What the fuck dude.
I absolutely love Prometheus except for the "stupid" things like taking one's helmet off to breathe an alien atmosphere or getting too close to an organism that no one knows about.
Just got back from seeing it and I freaking loved it. Fede Alvarez knows what he's doing and it shows in every part of this film. Great disguting kills, beautiful cinematography, you actually want characters to survive and the movie has just enough fan service while finding some new interesting ways to present the xenomorph horror. Definitely go see this in theaters
Man’s still getting Sony sponsorships after calling Madame Web bad *because* of executive meddling. Lmao
Different divisions.
Are you going somewhere with this or.......?
Sony got no choice because Hisense is getting popular with better value for money proposition.
That's normal company business. They're not petty children used to ass kissing (or at least don't seem to be)
This. Hisense make amazing TVs for the money
Saying it was the biggest fan made movie ever is very accurate. I didn't like it, it looked good though, but there was so much wrong with it, tried to be jack of all trades and mastered nothing.
I enjoyed it. It was thrilling
When I heard Fede Alverez was making this, my hopes went WAY UP
Love Alvarez! 🖤
Cringe.
Chris grew up with Aliens Romulus
@@lorcan8484I know. It’s not like he really done something that great besides Don’t Breath, which wasn’t even that great. Not sure why someone would fawn over him.
@@a012345I think it was more so the fact that hopes went up since Ridley Scott isn't the one directing it himself
Who else misses grading system and hilariocity?
Sure, but there are a thousand other youtube channels making fun of bad movies. I like this channel because I like hearing people be passionate about things they like, I don't need another youtube video talking about why 'insert movie' was so laughably bad
@@NTWoo95 Yeah there's no competing with Red Letter Media when it comes to mockery
Who just misses Chris having a scrotum to review movies?
@@NTWoo95the problem is this “toxic positivity” is just covering his ass in case anyone in the industry he aspires to sees it. It’s shallow and stupid: he limits how much of his opinion he shares for fears of insulting someone who is influential. It’s pathetic.
Not even a little bit. Chris being a director is way more exciting than some funny videos
If a facehugger lands on Chuck Norris, The Facehugger gets impregnated.
Glad to hear someone praising Prometheus! I'm one of the seemingly few who absolutely loved that movie. Its still no match for Alien or Aliens, but still an amazing movie, that adds a LOT to the series.
I'm looking forward to Romulus. Cailee Spaeny is turning out to be a great actress - I adored her performances in Devs and Civil War.
I do also
Prometheus does have a certain quality, especially aesthetically (despite some of the poorly written characters) imo. That said I found the followup utterly unwatchable though...
Play Alien: Isolation if you haven’t.
David Jonsson was the true acting standout here.
Honestly, it going back to the basics after Covenant was best. Fede played Alien: Isolation and wanted to make a movie like that. It loos like he succeeded.
yeah, only it was nothing like alien isolation
@@alexf1179 It definitely had a lot of Isolation in it.
@@justinrice5405it had a lot more Alien resurrection than isolation
@@alexanderguerrero347 no it didn’t, it had a 15 minute sequence with a hybrid, everything else felt just like alien isolation
@@brecibros2469 no it was more resurrection. The plot is about a crew who wanders into xeno experiments with no idea what it is with a defective android and they have to survive. That’s what happens in resurrection. And in Romulus
Prometheus is one of the most atmospheric and imposing films ever made I will never understand why it wasn’t well received
Because the scientists in Prometheus make the astronauts in Armageddon look like geniuses
Yeah, the opening scene and the soundtrack still give me goosebumps
because it was written by dumb dumb for dumb dumbs
I think it's because prometheus explores creationism of mankind. Which I find incredibly interesting, but if you consider how many people don't find that mystery to be fascinating, then the film doesn't work for them. Especially when there are so many religious people in the world. For them that question is already "answered"
Stupid characters making obviously awful choices DO NOT ENTERTAIN
Genuinely love your reviews. You’re the only movie reviewer I feel I can relate to as far as the majority of my own personal opinions on movies. 🎥 Thanks for the great content! 😊
You love Dead Space 3? This makes you the first person I’ve ever heard say that.
I enjoyed DS3 the issue was the pacing of the game especially with the stupid parts your climbing up a cliff it happens twice and it's just stupid as it kills pace.
And the fact your on the planet literally my mission 3 for the rest of the game after being on a ship in 1 and a space station in 2
They can't because Issac Clark is the straight white man lead.. They may be able to do something from a transexual Marxist Satan worshippers pov on the Sprawl.
Or maybe make Isaac's girlfriend a trannie because they never really clarified if she was actual an actual she in the game
@@dnakatomiuk I hated the fact that, if you were playing solo, then a third of the game was just inaccessible to you.
“No friends/your friends don’t own this game? Too bad. You’re not allowed to play it.”
@@ImmaculateOtter Yeah that as well and you had 2 do 2 play throughs because you only saw Carters nightmares if you were playing as him
i love all 3 dead space games. yes 3 is objectively the weakest but i still liked the story and wish we got more.
I’m actually really excited for this movie. The space station looks so much like Sevastopol from Alien Isolation, that the trailer made me pretty hyped.
And I couldn’t have asked for a better director. Evil Dead 2013 is hands down one of my favorites.
Thanks for the review as always, Chris 😁
It was 'ok'. Worth seeing a second time in the theater just bc I' bored and want to notice more lore.
@@SmokeNGunsBBQis it worth the watch ?going to see it tomorrow
Just go in not expecting anything special. The ending is basic and doesn't connect Aliens 2 with Sigourney. The ending will leave u hanging. It won't leave u asking for more but wth just happened. Go see it for yourself and the face huggers is like being on a Disney Ride Simulation.
@@SmokeNGunsBBQ It’s a good slow burn with a nice pay off. Prometheus on the other hand was really boring
@@SmokeNGunsBBQplease don’t go to the movie just because your bored don’t ruin it for other that are actually there and want to watch it. In my theatre I had at least 10 people that kept constantly getting up leaving then coming back I just wanted to yell sit the hell down.
Some channels are, ironically, trying to make money by crapping on Chris for not saing anything negative about films anymore (really, they're just jealous of his success and that he's managed to make his own film), but this review is very fair. If you like this, you will like that, and if you don't like this, you won't like that. What is wrong with this kind of review, really?
Over a minute of Sony TV sponsorship and then a Sony Playstation shirt? We get it 🤣
Just saw it. My favorite Alien since Aliens, which is high praise. I know a lot of people are making a big deal about the end but I thought it was so weird and batshit that I kind of love the wild swing. 4.3 / 5 stars
It doesn't make sense that the parasite all the sudden changes the way it did. They ruined it. What makes these scary is plausibility. Like the fact in nature there are crazy things like fish tongue parasites that look terrifying.
@@SmokeNGunsBBQ I understand your opinion. I liked Alien and Aliens not for plausibility but because of the great filmmaking and acting and practical effects.
I get that the third act could feel like they are just trying to include Prometheus lore, but I still had a great time overall.
Prometheus is an excellent film, no doubt. I can re-watch it over and over. It's visually stunning.
Looks good, but most of the characters are crap
@ 1:42 - Doesn't care about the sponsors and just wants the review portion of a movie review video.
Exactly
Thats why i tapped the screen to fast forward. I do it everytime before he goes in sponsor mode
Get revanced. Auto-skips sponsors and blocks all ads
@@ryoku79 This may come as an unpopular opinion, but I don’t like it when TH-camrs use sponsors for their videos, so that’s why I skip forward through them and just get to the actual video.
@@ethanreuter7908 I really don’t mind, they deserve to make money but when the add is like a quarter of the video, that’s not cool
Sell out
I'm so overjoyed to hear all the praise this film has been receiving. The Alien franchise has been in urgent need of a course correction for a long time, and this sounds like this film (like with Prey for the Predator franchise), has delivered that. Can't wait to go see it 🙌
I liked it but so many people are mad it didn’t innovate. Ugh it’s just a fun popcorn movie god I swear people don’t like anything
This movie wasn’t very good. You’ll be disappointed. Trust me.
..... Prometheus was damn good. Brilliant.
Trilogy is complete I've waited over 30 years to this... So this movie actually helps you care for the characters instead of being pumped to watch them die. This is something that has lacked in the series for a long time.
Trilogy? Oh come on Alien 3 was good. Not the best of them all but much better than recent movies.
@MR3DDev I think they're all great, but that's me.
cope, this movie is a nostalgia pandering cringe fest
@@T--kq3pj um OK, off you trot somewhere else then? Lol
@@Jonathan_Collins Chris grew up with Alien Romulus
For a man who also has a love for Alien & Dead space pretty much just SIFI horror. I was a little bummed when you said it doesn’t entertain big ideas like Prometheus… but then you compared it to Dead Space and now I’m sold on it. 👍🏻😂
Sci-fi* 🤦🤦🤦
SONY??? Imagine telling Chris Stuckmann from 13 years ago that one day his videos would be sponsored by Sony. What an accomplishment for a TH-camr, honestly.
1:43 to skip all the bloat
Im sorry but the people who are saying this movie is bad are all over the age of 40.
"Hur dur kids in duh movie" is the primary critique that im seeing. Nobody is elaborating on any of what makes the movie bad and im willing to bet went into the move trying to hate it.
No movie is perfect but romulus fits in nicely between alien and aliens, it world builds so much of what life is like under weyland yutani. It ties in prometheus with its mention that the black goo was what the prometheuss mission objective was the whole time. Explained it in a way that makes more sense than bio weapon. Then theres the hybrid, this is somthing we havnt seen before, while the trilobite was in prometheus i think this is so much cooler of a concept than that. The goo completely re writing the child into a human xenomorph is such a neat concept and showcases the terror of the black goo.
People will say it does nothing new and then praise prey for being back to basics. This is alien and aliens back to basics. The first act starts out slow playing out like alien, then it ramps up and starts like aliens. This is as back to basics as it gets and you cant change that because those same people are going to rip into the movie for straying to far from the original.
TLDR. Dont listen to the boomers that say this movie is bad. Go watch it, read between the lines. Have an open mind. The movie is worth it
literally I’m getting so annoyed saying mean comments back to them, like if u didn’t like it, go do something with your time that you’d enjoy, but instead rain on everyone’s parade that just want to have fun. not like they churn out alien movies easily. I’m not gonna die waiting to have a good time with what “exactly I want to see” miserable big babies 🙄
Boomers are the most selfish generation in history, they want to gatekeep everything including high paying job positions despite being 75+ years old, I've met an endless amount that refuse to retire or pass the torch with anything,..
Guarantee you everyone complaining is gen-x or older, they want Sigourney Weaver despite her being 5 years from a nursing home.
It is kinda dishonest to say it’s an age-related issue. Some critics over 40 liked it and some critics under 40 didn’t. Heck I’m 28 and I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it.
@oddtherapy8919 the majority of people I see criticizing the movie are old gen xers complaining about the young cast and missing the entire point of several scenes
@oddtherapy8919 the majority of people I see criticizing the movie are old gen xers complaining about the young cast and missing the entire point of several scenes
There’s no such thing as a new idea, yet Mr. Alvarez knew what worked and made something great. Also the set designs >
The shots of space are great
IMO, Alien/s had brilliant social commentary. The prequels tried to be bigger, weren't, with Scott essentially painting Blade Runner in Alien colors. I am so so so grateful to hear Romulus isn't a distracted movie. And what sharp proof of brilliance that the fans know what the monsters look like, and it's still completely terrifying.
I don't like how they changed the biology of what was a parasite into 'the thing'. Yes I'm aware of the ox/dog alien of alien 3. But it's still cringe what they did in this movie.
@@SmokeNGunsBBQ, brother, careful about spoilers. JFC.
Spoiler alert. In Romulus, the alien and the heroine become good friends
@@Drjfever, you guys enjoy being the people nobody likes being around?
What a loser lol spoilers
Its feel like Alien from 1979 and game Alien Isolation mix. Analog switches, sound and music from all frenchise. Its pearl of our time this year.
Just saw the movie, and think similarly that it's pretty fun and put the Aliens and characters in some interesting scenes / locations.
The main space station oozes Alien Isolation vibes, and the story / characters remind me of the old Alien novel series kind of story telling.
Not amazing, but fun, and was definitely better than I thought it was gonna be, n' that alone makes me happy.
Chris “I’ve never met a movie franchise I didn’t like” Stuckman
Films become franchises because they resonate with people.
This movie was the alternative sequel of Alien 1. Very Very Good movie🔥🔥
Good.. But very good.. Ehh no.. Gen z actors were cringe at times..
It takes place between alien and aliens
I loooooooove Prometheus and that’s why I came to listen to this review. I think if Prometheus would be released today would be a masterpiece in the eye of the public.
I will never forget the cinematic experience with Prometheus. It is one of the masterpiece to me. So sad the story cannot be finished.
I didn’t get your review, have the balls to give an opinion. I liked it much better when you actually gave one.
Chris doesn't do that anymore. You used to be able to tell his opinion on the thumbnails alone.
Still a better review than when he reviewed Trap.
He doesn’t want the director to hear if he didn’t like it so that he can continue being a movie director.
Yeah I agree and I've been a long time follower. All his reviews lately have been so surface level. You can tell he doesn't care about reviewing movies anymore and is just doing it to keep his followers around or to sell an Ad. But he clearly doesn't care anymore about that group of his followers. And that's honestly ok. People are allowed to grow and change priorities so I'm not mad at him for it.
But we're also allowed to not stick with him once he makes that change and that's what I did earlier this year. I stopped following and this is the first review I've seen of his in a while. I'm happy and sad to see that I made the right decision as his reviews are very watered down now.
@@cnlsflawless He actually did give his opinion on this movie. Unlike Trap.
Also one of the few people who liked Prometheus here
Just watched it. I can tell the movie was a labor of love and I really enjoyed it. Fede did wonderful.
This movie was goddamn beautiful. Highly engrossing world-building and fantastic scares and practical effects. Just the perfect not-Alien Alien movie.
Could had have better character depth. Less is more. Ie Ripley outliving her daughter and finding Newt.
This team-up is pure gold!
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Loved it, especially the way it tied all the previous films together.
Never have I heard someone review a movie, whether they like it or not, with so little enthusiasm that makes my grandma call the Emoji Movie silly fun is more expressive than Stuckman here. C'mon man, where's the drive? Where's that Real critique at?
Yeah it honestly was a let down buddy. I was not feeling any enthusiasm after. It was like hmmmm I was feeling good and then it was come on guys really that’s how we land this? Walked out more pissed thinking we could write better or scratch your head. Oh well cheers
@@AdamMiller-r5osame this severely underwhelmed me. Felt like it was full of missed opportunities and way overbloated with nostalgia bait and straight up scene for scene ripping ala The Force Awakens levels of lazy rehashing.
You guys like nothing apparently
I loved prometheus! Covenant was OK. I didn't like Covenant at first viewing but after a second viewing I liked it more. Can't wait to see this one.
Same
Same here. I rewatched Covenant maybe 6 months ago and it jumped up for me. Sometimes it takes several times seeing something to truly form an opinion on it. After seeing this new one a few hours ago, it’s a “meh” for me.
I agree with you about Prometheus!! I always get crap for it 🤣
Thats because it was absolute trash. A truly awful movie that should be deleted from history.
@@aikighost Exactly. Pure garbage. Chris is too scared to criticize it or he's a liar. One or the other.
@@greggibson33what a shit taste you have
@@aikighoststill not as bad as jurassic park sequels lol
I love prometheus
I wish they would make "the engineers" film talking about their world & backstory.
If this is a hit, and its ties to P and C cannot be ignored, that might very well happen. Let Chris Nolan or Denis Villeneuve deal with it.
They did called Prometheus
I loved Prometheus, stupid scientists and all, but Covenant REALLY dropped the ball and I'm glad they're moving away from the whole David nonsense to something more simple. Sometimes that's exactly what a franchise needs, like Prey did to Predator and Fede Alvarez is the man this franchise needed. I don't mind if it's just a slasher in space if the filmmakers have fun with the idea, less is more IMO.
Well Prometheus and Covenant take place before Alien. Romulus takes place between Alien and Aliens. So Romulus didn’t have to be deep like Prometheus
I really liked Prometheus too!
I think it was legit the best one, best story too. Engineers are rly interesting, while yes the Aliens are cool but theyre just mindless animals.
And the film aged very well
If you are an OG Alien fan, where you think Alien and Aliens are the best in the series, but stayed true to the fan base and seen all the rest. This IS true to Alien and Aliens. And manages to not stray from the source material from the other movies. To be honest, 10/10 as an alien fan. As a movie alone, 8, maybe 8.5 if you like horror.
Just saw it. The CGI was downright pathetic, but the movie was so good that I let it go right away. I had a panic attack during one scene. It was a really good time.
What scene?
Which cgi shot in particular?
Nah, the CGI was perfect. The only time the CGI faltered was with the cameo from Rook.
Nothing wrong with the rest of the CGI.
Are you a fan of Skibidi Toilet by any chance?
@@user-fg3bn6nj8v When they were walking through the room of face huggers.
For me, the fanservice absolutely took me out. I hated every time they stole a line, scene, shot or solution from other Alien movies. Even felt like they left pauses for cheering.
Couldn't agree more. They reminded me I should watch those instead.
Just got back from watching it in IMAX. Pretty well done. Sound design is amazing and overall keeps the excitement level up all through out! Worth watching. Kudos to film making and such insane efforts put in.
I hope this movie gives game publishers the motivation to make another Alien Isolation sequel
How she died unless they just do a different story
@@ryans413 you can do so much with that universe you don’t always have to have the ripley family tree involved
You always surprise us!
Great little review, and I agree fully! I enjoyed the call back to Prometheus in the movie, I wasn't expecting that. Also absolutely loved Rain and Andy, they were both portrayed so well and it was a heartfelt relationship. I really need to see this again soon.
0:54 Gran Turismo mentioned
Follow ur line Jan 💨💨💨
Eyyyo STUCKY!! Whens the Review gonna drop for BORDERLANDS? Just give us one Critical Review for old times sake! I doubt Eli Roth and Craig Mazin will give a crap about your opinion on it anyways, so what's the harm in it, HUH????
Yeah I believe Eli Roth wasn't too happy with it either. That and spread over the fact well beloved reviewers we're giving this bad reviews that right there should automatically tell you its OK if you didn't like and need to talk about it. But something tells me Chris will pass on it since he's a filmmaker now. But if he does it will surprise me.
He said himself he just talk about movies now, he ain't critiquing anymore.
Instead of crying here watch hundreds of videos of borderland review
Theres a million videos of grifters rage baiting that movie go watch those. Lmao yall just want to be angry
Prometheus is the best movie of this entire franchise & I honestly don’t give af about ppl who think it’s too “pretentious” or big ideas… and as for some characters that make stupid ideas? Show me a horror movie that doesn’t. Alien Romulus has the same exact thing - for example the idiot in the water “there’s something in the water” and then just waits to get attacked. Like what are yall smoking.
After first viewing : Nostalgia 100%, mood and environment 100%, facehugger action 100%, xenomorph action 80%, Prometheus black goo and hybrid alien 15% 😢 not needed... 80% of this movie was freaking fantastic and I was smiling ear to ear, until black goo and stupid engineer looking hybrid monster... Similar to the one we got at the end of alien Resurrection,... All in all a great movie though and I can't wait to see it again 🍿🫶👽
Aliens 1986
Alien 1979
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AVP part 1
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(Alien covenant, AVP part 2, and alien Resurrection.. Ummmm....👎LOL)
Did you watch Prometheus I only ask because David the robot infected Shaw’s boyfriend with the goo they has sex and he transferred it to Shaw and she gave birth to a hybrid thing. I’m only saying this because people keep saying they copied Resurrection but really that’s what happens when you inject the black goo it happened in Prometheus they didn’t copy Resurrection.
Alien 3 is easily the worst of the franchise because of it's endless script changes, directing.
Romulus is the best film since Aliens and I think 75% of fans will agree, the characters could have been fleshed out more but people don't want a 2.5 hour horror movie.
If it doesn't have a hot Latino xenomorph I ain't watching it
Nothing like a big booty Xenomorph.
Well, um... hmmm. 🤐
There is a Latina woman on the team 😈
The ending reminded me of Dead Space.
Watched it last night and I loved it. I consider myself a big Alien fan and was suprised how good it was. Can't wait to watch it again.
This is not a great movie by any means. When you have to CGI a character from the first film in order to convince people this is an Alien movie... you're in trouble. Didn't care about any character. The alien is meh. The ending is dumb and there is no real tension. Wasn't on the edge of my seat once. Anyone who says this is the third best Alien movie is wrong. At least Resurrection had some characterisation. A real story with the military lab experiments. Romulus is diet Coke of space horror.
Fucking real dude. This movie was absolute ass
Both alien 3 (well, the directors cut) and 4 are better than this.
As are 1 and 2 obviously.
It looks boring like all modern films. I can tell right away from the trailer 😂
@@chaosagent20777yea it was such a huge terrible piece of garbage
Interesting. I think Resurrection is a total dumpsterfire in every way.
Three words: “GOOD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!”
I was so happy to see that in this!
Cool there's a something resembling a review at the end of this commercial
It's definitely a mixed bag.
They went through all the trouble of bringing the aliens to life in a practical way (they look really great), only to give us a CGI-version of a dead actor (it looks... so bad, and it's in the film quite a bit). Why not just cast some random dude for that role? It didn't need to be what it was. That was very distracting - I hated it.
There are two other callbacks - both are lines from previous films, and they are so cheesy and out of place. True fan service would have been to make this film exactly the way it was made, only without word-for-word callbacks and CGI-versions of dead actors.
I'm actually fine with the final act. It was bizarre. One reviewer called it bananas - I have to admit that's a good description, but I also have to admit that I quite liked it: it was the one part of the film where I just had no idea where this was going.
This could have been great. The callbacks were too distracting - I think they would knock an entire point off of a 5-star review. I'd give this a 3.5 of 5 - maybe even a 3 (some of the characters were weaksauce, and it has a few other flaws). It's worth a watch, but you should expect a mixed bag of a film with a wild final act.
I hated the callbacks especially the Alien resurrection one at the end it made no sense if you watched prometheus, this movie was a nostalgic mess
For how much I heard that this movie relied on practical effects I honestly honestly couldn’t find any that didn’t look like terrible CGI aside from maybe the one close-up of the baby alien that had burst out of the chest
Is it really gory? Seeing Alvarez directing I was really hoping that at the very least the movie is just a bloodbath and has gruesome on screen kills
@@YUNGXR1ST Alien Resurrection is gorier. Maybe Alien3 is gorier, idk - it's not over-the-top with the gore, really, I don't think - not a bloodbath like Alvarez's Evil Dead. There are some yeesh moments, for sure.
It's not a bad watch - I'll probably watch it again. There are just some big flaws, imo
@@tosweetdelight saw it last night; I overall really liked it; the characters weren’t super stupid in decision making which was nice. But ya the gore is disappointing. Especially since various articles stated that the cast and crew hyped it up constantly to be extremely brutal and everything on screen which just wasn’t the case. It’s got flaws for sure but it was a solid installment. Didn’t satisfy my “movie bloodlust” at all though; it had so many perfect chances to do so. Is that messed up?😂.
just got back from theater after watching this. Everyone in this movie was incredible, this was one of the best movies I've seen, ever.
By moving to the horror and gore side of the genre spectrum, the director missed the point of both of the classic films... good, old fashioned suspense and atmosphere. It seemed like he was more interested in unique and disgusting kills rather than character and pacing and the other things that made the first two movies so iconic and memorable... and no, there was actually very little "splatter" in either film. Once in Alien and once in Aliens. The rest of the deaths are pretty much in the dark and/or off screen, allowing your imagination to fill in the blanks.
Exactly the movie never had my full attention either, I don't understand how so called "fans" say they love it
@@yowasup1001we're just starving for Alien content, tbh. We haven't had a decent movie in a while, and Alien Isolation is over a decade old (still one of my favorite games of all time though).
@@yowasup1001I'm glad I'm not Goin to watch dis movie
Dam lol
Went as a group of 8 friends all of us fans of the franchise and we all loved it
Loved Prometheus and the storyline.. now it's gone forever because of fans wanting boo scares 🤬
The bar has been lowered so much with the Alien franchise movies (like most franchise movies) as they'll make money regardless. Now what passes for a "good" Alien movie is fan service, good set pieces and a lot of jump scares? How about a smart, or interesting, or original story? Instead of jump scares, fleshed out characters so it's actually impactful when something happens to them? None of that was present in Covenant or Prometheus.
Agreed. Romulus is a mediocre movie at best. The pacing is horrible, it feels cut down so a story that was supposed to take place over 36 hours happens in 47 minutes, and the characters (except for one) are bland and underutilzed.
@@Benjamin-xv9lethat just not true, the explosion of the Romulus turned 36 hours into 50 minutes idk how you didn’t catch that.
Just be glad it isn't as bad as the way jurassic park was strip mined for shekels. I'll go as far as to say they raped jurassic park for cash grabs.
Can we just accept that as much as we love the franchise, its not actually GOOD? Out of seven movies, only Alien and Aliens are considered great by everyone. And next would be this, cause its faithful. Prometheus may be great or garbage depending on who you are asking. Covenant is similar, but had less love than Prometheus. Alien 3 is a mess, and Resurrection... well. So, 7 movies, 2 great ones, 3 "maybe, idk" and 2 bad ones. Thats a shitty record. Adding AVP makes it even worse.
There's only so many ways you can spin-off a horror movie with a relatively simple concept before you have to introduce wild concepts that will never be truly acceptable by all. Alien Theory one made a video of how a potential Alien 3 would've been in which Ripley basically goes to war against Weyland Industries, guns blazing. An original story, yes. Horror? More like action with some horror elements with barely any mention of the Aliens.
Romulus is a comic-book fanfilm - Felt more like gen z tiktokkers filming themselves than an actual alien movie.
So damn true
Dude I have to say, the way you did this review is graceful. Applause man. And yes I agree with every word.
That third act has me feeling like I was a little too hard on Alien: Resurrection I’m ngl 😂
At least it didn't look like a penis with googly eyes.
Did you watch Prometheus going off your comment you haven’t
Saw it today. First act is great, everything after that depends into madness with a terrible final act. Walked out so disappointed and angry about what promised to be a great movie.
The movie having so many parts/references to the game alien isolation made my day!