why i HATE Alien： Romulus

Hello and welcome back to a new video.

So I recently watched the brand new Alien

movie, Alien: Romulus, and as an avid fan

of the Alien movie franchise and sci-fi

horror in general, I knew I just had to

watch this movie.

Unfortunately, I found it extremely

boring, bland, and lacking in a certain

kind of lustre.

I don't understand why it's getting such

good reviews.

It's probably one of the worst Alien

movies I've ever seen.

So first of all, I didn't like the

characters.

I didn't like the cast for any of the

characters.

I didn't like the actors.

I didn't even know who any of the actors

or the actresses were.

To me, they were just a bunch of new

actors,

maybe they'll be famous at some point in

the future, but as of right now, I don't

really know who they are or care who they

are.

In the previous Alien movies, even the

prequels like Prometheus and Covenant and

the classics, they all had a really good

cast of actors and also famous actors like

Danny McBride and Michael Fassbender and

Sigourney Weaver.

They're all really cool actors and

actresses that are well known in their

sphere, but I can honestly not tell you

who any of these new actors and actresses

were in the new Alien: Romulus movie, and

I watch a lot of movies, so I'm kind of

surprised I didn't know who any of them

were.

So the cast was boring, but not only that,

the characters were also very boring.

It was just a group of young people.

I don't really like to watch people that

are that young.

They're too young.

I think they're in their early 20s.

In most of the Alien films, it's usually a

crew of people who are in their 30s, you

know, grown mature adults who are well

fleshed out, got life experiences.

I don't really like seeing how a bunch of

young people who have no experience, no

knowledge, just a bunch of dumb kids

basically messing around.

It didn't really feel like a proper Alien

movie without at least proper adults in

it.

None of the characters had any charisma or

any memorability.

They were just very bland and boring, and

I couldn't even remember any of their

names.

Most of them were just really annoying as

well and stupid, especially the guy who

prods the alien with the electric prod

thing.

He was so irritating the way he kept

bullying the android guy.

The only cool character in the whole movie

was the black guy who played Andy the

android, which is kind of funny when you

say it like that, but he was the only

character in the movie that had any kind

of coolness, mainly because he was like

this mature adult.

The story of Alien: Romulus is also really

boring.

So in most of the Alien movies, it usually

starts off as a crew in a ship and they're

on their way to someplace, and then they

suddenly get sidetracked by a mysterious

ping, like a beacon, like a radio signal

that they go and investigate.

There's always some kind of mystery that

just springs up on them and it's

unexpected, and then they go and

investigate.

It's kind of like a side quest that

becomes the main quest.

But in Alien: Romulus, there's nothing

like that.

There's no sense of mystery There's no

sense of, oh, we're out here in the void

of space, don't know what's gonna happen.

They basically live on a mining planet,

and the whole point of the story is for

them to fly up to this derelict space

station, steal some kind of technology,

the cryopods and some fuel, get back on

their own ship and fly off to some fantasy

planet.

I remember watching Prometheus and

Covenant and thinking, this is so cool,

where are the Engineers from, why did they

create this goo, where's the planet, what

are they gonna do when they meet the

humans?

So many questions filled my head whilst

watching the prequel movies, and when

watching Alien: There was just no

questions.

It's like, okay, it's just the same thing

over and over again.

They accidentally awaken the aliens, they

get attacked by facehuggers, they get

impregnated, they get hunted.

It's just same thing, which would be okay

because that's what I'm used to from an

Alien movie, and that's what I enjoy about

it.

But it's missing something.

It's missing that feeling of

mysteriousness and intrigue, and it didn't

make me want to know more about what's

going on in this movie.

It just felt like, yeah, yeah, okay, just

get it over with, let's see them die.

And that brings me on to my second

complaint.

The deaths in this movie were really

boring and really tame compared to

Prometheus and Covenant and even the

classic Alien movies.

All had really cool gory deaths where the

main characters would die in interesting,

gruesome, gory ways.

And yeah, there were some gruesome deaths

in Romulus, but they just weren't very

gruesome compared to Prometheus and

Covenant.

And I don't even remember how most of them

died now.

So the bold Asian woman gets infected, and

then she has one burst out of her chest—

very bog standard.

And then the tough macho guy, he just

basically gets impaled by a tail, lifted

up into an air vent, and then he gets face

punctured with the second mouth of the

alien.

Bit boring.

It wasn't very gory.

It didn't really make me go Wow, that's

really cool.

It's just very boring.

I was hoping he was gonna die in a more

interesting way.

The only cool death was when the guy—

what's his name— Bjorn gets spat at with

the acid and it melts through his chest

and kills him.

That was pretty cool because we've never

really seen anyone die from the acid in

Alien movies.

There was that scene, I think in Alien 3

or Alien Resurrected or whatever it's

called, where the little dwarf guy gets

some acid blood dripping on his ear and

then he screams, but it doesn't kill him.

Never seen the acid blood actually kill

anyone.

So that was kind of cool to see that, but

the rest of the deaths again were really

boring, and I don't really remember the

other deaths.

I just remember the deaths from Prometheus

being so much cooler.

Like in the beginning when the first guys

get lost inside of the ship, they get

attacked by that snake-looking squid

thing, and it wraps around his arm, breaks

in half, and then flies down his mouth.

And then the other guy, his face helmet

glass melts, and he breathes it in and it

all gets stuck to his face, and then he

comes back as like a mutant zombie guy.

And then in Alien Covenant, when that

marine guy gets infected, they bring him

back to the lander ship, and then the

alien bursts out of his back, and then his

lifeless corpse just flops over the table

as all this blood spills out.

That was so cool.

And there just weren't any death moments

or scenes in Romulus that made me think,

wow, that's so cool.

The only kind of cool bit was, I guess,

the offspring, the human-looking alien

thing that gets birthed out of one of the

characters.

You know what, as a massive egg.

I don't know how that massive egg— how did

she squeeze that out of her hole?

Must have been so painful.

And then she starts secreting like alien

goo from her boob, and then the offspring

starts sucking on her.

It's kind of weird.

I thought at some point I'm watching a

porno more than an actual film that was in

the cinema.

Actually started to turn me on a little

bit, and I want to see something more

sexual now.

Like, what if the offspring just started

fucking the girl?

And I just can't believe that Alien

Covenant flopped at the box office and it

got really bad reviews and they decided to

cancel the sequel to Covenant just because

they made a loss on the movie.

But Romulus is getting really good reviews

and apparently it's doing really well in

the box office.

I just don't understand, people are so

stupid.

Covenant had way better characters, way

better cast, way better deaths and combat

scenes, way more interesting storyline.

I just don't understand how Romulus is

beating Covenant.

When it doesn't have any of these things.

So for those reasons, I have to give

Alien: Romanus a 6.2 out of 10.

Very disappointing, and I don't know if

I'd recommend watching it.