Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Alvarez has come up with a way to tie the original 1979 “Alien” to “Alien: Prometheus” in a third act stunner of creature design and visual effects.
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Director and co-writer Fede Alvarez understands the horror aspect of the assignment with monsters lurking in dark corners and saving the most ghastly creature for the end.
- Richard Gray @ The Reel Bits
- Excerpt: A visually stunning but narratively hollow Alien entry that struggles to escape the franchise’s repetitive and nostalgic traps.
- Harrison Martin @ Flixfrog
- Excerpt: Alien: Romulus is a great addition to this long-running franchise! Fede Álvarez is a master of horror. David Jonsson is a scene stealer as the fidgety synth Andy. I wouldn’t mind another midquel showing what went down on the Renaissance.
- [New] | Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: We care so much about [Spaeny and Jonsson] that we almost forget the obvious threads to this film’s predecessors that won’t stop popping up. Stop strangling good ideas to expand your IP with the constraints of needless IP familiarity.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: A legacy sequel that thrives when it taps into what made the original ‘Alien’ such a tense outer space outing, ‘Alien: Romulus’ proves there’s still plenty of life in the Xenomorphs—and that life is best served with a hefty dose of death. Cailee Spaeny emerges as a strong final girl in Fede Alvarez’s nail-biting space horror venture, delivering a Ripley worthy performance that anchors the film’s tension and terror.
- Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
- Excerpt: Director/co-writer Fede Álvarez makes Alien: Romulus slam headlong into the series’ canon, jolting us with scares and racing our anxiety off the scale.
- Allison Rose @ FlickDirect
- Excerpt: Alien: Romulus is a wild ride that will have your blood pumping from beginning to end.
- Diego Salgado @ Sofilm [Spanish]
- Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Alien Romulus feels like content produced to fit established IP specifications instead of being what it should be: an engaging and pulse-pounding story.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Take-Up
- Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Mixing the aesthetic of the original film with new ideas related to migration, limited opportunities and oppression by super-powerful corporations, and references to previous films, “Alien: Romulus” works as a solid new instalment.
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