Aliens Redemption (2019) User Reviews

Truthful to the Alien universe

[MiguelDDias · 9/10 · 7 December 2019]

This short represents an effort to stay truthful to the Alienverse and to James Cameron's Aliens that marked an entire generation. Even with a very low budget it was possible to bring forth a solid story, good performances and a great CGI environment. A definite win!

Superior to Alien 3

[Deaconfingers · 8/10 · 7 December 2019]

Alien: Redemption takes the Alien franchise to places fans would never have dreamed, without compromising the key elements of the Alien world, and does it successfully. This tribute is a delight to fans eyes, who loved Aliens, will love this. A trully blessed christmas gift. The action sequences are quite good, the story here is once again solid and convincing, and the performances are still the top row quality you expected from this line.

A great redemption to the series

[kevincrazymoss · 9/10 · 7 December 2019]

First of all, I'm a sucker for horror and sci-fi movies. Second, I LOVE the Alien series. To me this looks and sounds like the first episode of the announced tv series, that Disney is going to trow at us, next year. I´m good with that, if not...just stick with this movie and you will have a blast, i did.

One of the best sci-fi shorts ever

[sofiatrevo · 8/10 · 10 December 2019]

To me this is not just a short film it is an experience, never saw until today such a cool tribute to the aliens franchise like this. The lieutenant is our main hero and he kicks ass with a new weapon like the pulse rifle, very cool as the other one, killing aliens left and right (they are all over the place). When the action starts, you're in for the ride of your life. The post-credits scene is for the ages.

Final Grade: 8/10

Weyland Yutani returns in this awesome movie

[joanasilves · 9/10 · 7 December 2019]

The visuals in this movie are awesome, for a short movie it surprised me a lot, i was expecting that this wasn´t going to be good...but...was i wrong. It´s solid entertainment all the way, since we start at space station north star, until they arrived at planet xenon, it´s time for war once again, it reminded me a lot of Aliens, loved the scenes they did inside the apc. If this movie was a feature film, and they had a bigger budget, i really don´t know where this director would take us...

All in all i´d give this movie a 9 out of 10, because has short movies go, this is top notch quality.

If you love the aliens franchise see this movie, you won´t be disappointed.

Unbelievable action, for a short movie.

[JamesBlob · 10/10 · 9 December 2019]

There's some amazing combination of animatronics, and miniatures used in this short film from the drop ship to the amazing face huggers to the queen alien. As you watch the 36 minutes of unbelievable action in this tribute to the alien franchise, you can feel the love for the xenomorph here, the alien queen is simply amazingly done.

All in All, 10/10 an amazing journey into the alien world.

RAMBO ALIEN KILLER

[as2635349 · 9/10 · 8 December 2019]

9.7 - A really true surprise of the independent portuguese cinema, directed by Rui Constantino (fix this name, you'll hear about him in the future), which is a kind of "hommage" to the work masterpiece of James Cameron - ALIENS! In fact, it's a short film, made with scarse resources, but with a very high quality degree achieved. Point out to the level of intensity, which comes to the situation where you end up vibrating when seeing this small work, to the point of being really thrilling to watch! For that much contributes the excelent soundtrack and level of sound effects of this picture and the acting of the main actor, who becames a true "RAMBO ALIEN KILLER"! Recommended viewing!!!

The biggest low budget hommage to Aliens

[anapires431999 · 8/10 · 6 December 2019]

In this movie weyland yutani, regains it´s power, and the aliens are back again, as a group of marines, are sent into a planet only to discover that the colonists, have been taken down by the aliens (these guys don´t know them, and what they are capable of doing) they get attacked, and they start to die. And for me this is when i felt, that the movie is great, the action scenes, the atmosphere, the tone is creepy and unsettling, full of excitement. The music grants you, the return of the aliens to form. Love this short movie, and hope they can do more movies like this. Rui Constantino directed the hell out of Aliens Redemption and crafted and created an atmospheric, exciting movie.

Cinematic experience movie, and a tribute to James Cameron´s Aliens

[theoriginalpunisher · 9/10 · 6 December 2019]

If you want some dense and thrilling atmosphere and a little more claustrophic feel, Aliens Redemption would be my choice. Incredible effects, new marines, cool weapons, Alien Queen, facehuggers, alien warriors, engineers, derelict, egg silo, Apc, dropship ud-4l, new spaceships. In this short, we´ve got things, i never saw in any of the aliens movie franchise. Great action, suspense and intrigue finale, stay after the credits roll, there´s a special scene, that i think it may somehow lead us to a sequel...i hope so. Just an awesome sci fi/ horror flick, and the most incredible about all of this, is that it´s made by a portuguese director... Awesome job man after this short movie, i´m a fan of your work.

Full of tension , chills , noisy action.

[katarinaignac · 8/10 · 7 December 2019]

First of all i´m a lover of the alien franchise, have them all on dvd, second i love Sigourney Weaver, but the cast in this is very cool. As low budget goes they had to spent a lot of money in this, the sets are incredible, it has various tributes to Alien and Aliens, from the suspense and tension of the first one to the glorious battles of the second one. Weyland is back again colonizing worlds, and they have a new colonel leading the operations interpreted by Paulo Constantino, they lost communications with planet Xenon and then they send a team of marines to investigate (it reminds me of the same plot from Aliens) once they get there, all things change, fear takes them to investigate what happend to colonists, them it´s an elevator to hell as they descend into darkness.

Stay for the post-credits scene, it´s one of the best i´ve seen in years of this beloved franchise.

8/10

Solid entertainment, a fun low budget movie.

[kurganmaster · 10/10 · 8 December 2019]

Visually superior to Alien 3 and maybe 4, this was a mix of the first two The creatures are awesome, i love this movie because of the great Special Effects, the great story and the cool characters of the movie. A satisfying, never boring, wonderful film. Hopefully not the final one.

Don't even ask me how and why I watched this film.

[Joan-H-62076 · 7/10 · 13 February 2022]

Don't even ask me how and why I watched this film but i watched it front to end. I love good ole cheesy B-film. There is an honesty to them and boy this one was forthright for sure. Would Love to see more from this director because I haven't laughed so much in a long time. Thank you for keeping the genre alive and true to silliness while forking over truth bombs.

A guide to make a good sci-fi short movie of aliens

[wesleyedsontracker · 10/10 · 10 December 2019]

We must see this short movie the way shorts go, it´s full of value. With this tiny budget they did wonderfull things, delivering the goods in a way, i was not expecting at all, it surprised me a lot. Combining the aliens atmosphere so well, the details of the walls, the new weapon, that special scene in the post-credits, an amazing, amazing job here.

i can only give this short 10/10.

A glorious redemption

[marianagouveiadoll · 9/10 · 16 December 2019]

A glorious redemption of this franchise, i think they did a really good job here, the effects are good, story, characters, aliens, sets, spacheships, egg silo, engineers. i hope there´s another one, i don´t mind to see one each year, it looked like a tv pilot episode.

9/10

The most amazing short movie ever

[dukessheppard · 10/10 · 23 December 2019]

Aliens with a special touch, and by the hands of director Rui Constantino a portuguese filmmaker with an impressive talent, he also stars in this movie and does a great job, so weyland is back colonizing worlds until they loose communication with planet xenon, we already know the aliens took over the base, but the soldiers dont know anything, and they aren t prepared for what s coming their way, they go there and the killing starts, and the soldiers start to die... so i recomend the short movie, it really takes us there, to the gathering between humans and aliens.

Time for the true redemption of the series

[MariaCristinaPorto · 8/10 · 9 December 2019]

It's a fantastic film with some genuinely suspenseful and visually it was a pleasure to watch, making this director just as much an artist as Cameron or Scott were. Let's just say Alien and Aliens are classics, and this guy brought to us the best of both worlds, in one single short movie, on how to teach Disney, how you can make a cool and great story of Aliens. Beautiful sets, and effects, i can´t believe they only spent 5,000 doing this, it´s an amazing job of everyone involved. Loved the post-credits scene so much....Aliens will never die, they just keep coming back for more.

For a low-budget great follow up of Aliens

[damiaoc · 9/10 · 13 December 2019]

This new installment in the Alien series, even as a short movie, takes us on a journey to familiar places, we´ve been before, by the time the action starts it's impossible to forget it. The special effects are remarkable, for a low budget i mean, it´s incredible what they done here, seen it already 4 times, and every time i see it, i find something new. You will be blown away by the effects and design of the sets and the great action sequences they have with the aliens. Look out for the post-credits scenes, they are so great

With Aliens as the best sci fi picture of all time, my rating for this is 9, because it really take us there again, and we see another mission with marines, and Weyland-Yutani Corp. taking over things again.

The Xenomorphs are back in an outstanding sci-fi short movie

[bosven · 8/10 · 11 December 2019]

I've been a fan of this series for over 25 years now, and i must say that this short movie is really powerfull, the actors did a good job, and the story is very compelling. You can't run from the aliens! There's no hiding from the aliens! They will totally get you! The soldiers have a mix of armor´s, including the new armor of the lieutenant and the old one from (Aliens) The weapons are all there, including the new pulse rifle, that fire´s some sort of power pulse purple shot, that destroy´s aliens completely. One thing that surprised me was the amount of Alien Queen´s, there´s lots of them. After the credits we see for the first time in an Alien movie the egg silo that the engineers created to bring Aliens to life, were we see inside more than a hundred eggs. I hope they can do more shorts likes this, i really loved it.

Weyland Yutani is back

[vitorantunes007 · 10/10 · 17 December 2019]

One of the most interesting stories of Aliens, i´ve seen many short movies of Aliens, but never one like this. The company is back to investigate the aliens and a group of colonists pay the ultimate price, as soldiers of the company go to investigate the problem. A terrific movie.

10/10.

Low Budget Quality Sci-fi

[burkejayaliens · 8/10 · 22 December 2019]

Great short movie, it looks like a very big budget movie, the sets are incredible. The camera moves around slowly and quietly, exploring this place, and it makes us want to be there. It´s nonstop action that is actually paced quite well and feels very intense.

I think I'll watch it again now., and again. An excellent short of the Aliens World

Better than expected, another excellent film in the series

[AaronMikea · 10/10 · 7 December 2019]

Alien Redemption is one of those breaths of fresh air that operates on a level above what many so obsessed with the genre are able to appreciate.

So the story goes, to planet Xenon where communications ceased six days ago, so Colonel Jacinto one of Weyland´s top military sends a group of marines there to investigate the problem, we all know what the problem is (ALIENS) and then we have various easter eggs to the aliens franchise, since the apc to the dropship, passing throught the facility´s and weapons, we see that everything was taken care of to make this a true sequel to the series. i´m going to buy this on dvd, as soon as it gets out, and all of you should do the same.

It´s that great.

10/10. A very good purchase for your movies collection and to be enjoyed on home theater.

A true revelation

[vitorpereiraantunesc · 10/10 · 16 December 2019]

I´ve seen it, and it´s everything we could ever want from an Aliens movie. Now i will have to wait to buy it on blu-ray, and see how they did it. The portuguese director and his team have made a great short movie.

Cool addition to the series

[francisjames-21558 · 8/10 · 20 December 2019]

This short movie brings us what we love in Aliens and even more, somethings here i never saw in the franchise, the egg silo is one of them, fantastic set pieces. Forget about horror, this is a sequel to the military power of Weyland yutani corportation on colonizing worlds. We have it all here, hi-tech weapons, spaceships, the incredible apc, the dropship and the marines, even the engineer in the post-credits scene is awesome.

Give this short movie a chance, is that great, it´s a well-made sequel and well worth seeing.

Weyland Yutani rises once more

[matrixjohn-62713 · 10/10 · 3 September 2020]

This short movie works at every level, it takes us on an alternative storyline, were Weyland-Yutani corporation rises, once again, from the ashes of time, to discover and experiment more on the aliens. A great spin-off movie from fans to fans.

A different action-packed spin-off.

[antoniomarcelo · 8/10 · 11 December 2019]

It's a fun action film and intense as all the Alien sequels, will buy it as soon as it gets out. The lieutenant is a badass with is super weapon wasting Aliens. This is one of those rare short movies that involves the audience so completely in the story. If you're looking for pure cinematic entertainment then look no further!!