The Alien: Romulus Rotten Tomatoes Score is now out as the first batch of reviews have hit the review aggregator site.
The good news? It’s the best of the franchise since the release of Aliens back in 1986.
However, the score isn’t nearly as high as Aliens or the first movie, Alien.
With 90 reviews currently accounted for, the Alien: Romulus Rotten Tomatoes Score is at 81%.
Friday am Update: With 175 reviews, the score is at 82%. The Audience Score is at 88%.
For comparison, the first Alien released in 1979 from Ridley Scott has a Rotten Tomatoes Score of 93%. James Cameron’s 1986 sequel, Aliens, has a 94% Rotten Tomatoes Score. Check out the franchise scores below.
The initial reactions to Alien: Romulus offered it’s the best movie ever made, so I was expecting a bit higher Rotten Tomatoes Score. Of course, early reactions are always stating it’s the best thing since sliced bread, but I was hoping Alien: Romulus would be different.
Of course, the Rotten Tomatoes Score depends if the reviewers are shilling or not for said particular movie, and as we saw with Deadpool & Wolverine, are completely wrong and don’t matter, as Deadpool & Wolverine‘s Rotten Tomatoes Score is currently coming in lower than Alien: Romulus.
The Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score will be what matters, which will become available once the movie gets released this weekend.
The box office side of things sees Alien: Romulus opening to around $40-$50 million domestically. Not too shabby.
What do the negative reviews for Alien: Romulus say:
Here is a selection of the Top Critics’ negative reviews from Rotten Tomatoes:
[One creative choice is] an unintentional, chilling vision of the future that has nothing to do with chest-bursting monsters. You might find this palatable. For me, it ruined what was otherwise a fun, icky trip to space. – Bloomberg News
A technically competent piece of work; but no matter how ingenious its references to the first film it has to be said that there’s a fundamental lack of originality here which makes it frustrating. – Guardian
What’s onscreen is neither a haunted house nor a roller coaster, but a standard theme-park ride based on a movie — an Alien-flavored attraction that doubles as an overly respectful homage. – Rolling Stone
Along the way, Álvarez makes one error so egregious that he just about makes you want to root for the xenomorphs to gobble this franchise whole before acid-spitting it back out. – Globe and Mail
The foundational mistake came when someone said, “Hey, let’s make another ‘Alien’ movie.” Newsflash: The alien concept is dead. Leave it alone. – San Francisco Chronicle
A gorehound whose tastes and talents are much better-suited to the Grand Guignol splatter of “Evil Dead” than they are to the suffocating dread of “Alien,” the director would rather torture his cast than develop their characters. – IndieWire
Let the callbacks and homages begin — and then never end. – Financial Times
[You] may even laugh rather than scream. It’s all good, though. In space, probably no one can hear you laugh, either. – Associated Press
Alien franchise Rotten Tomatoes Scores:
- Alien: Covenant (2017): 65% / 55%
- Prometheus (2012): 73% / 68%
- Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007): 12% / 30%
- Alien vs. Predator (2004): 22% / 39%
- Alien Resurrection (1997): 56% / 39%
- Alien 3 (1992): 45% / 46%
- Aliens (1986): 94% / 94%
- Alien (1979): 93% / 94%
