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Like another reviewer I thought it was something to do with the Aliens franchise but this movie doesn't even deserve the title of movie, instead it should be called a hodgepodge of how not to act. All the main actors were over doing their roles, especially the man playing the helicopter pilot. Possibly the only actor who played their role correctly was the daughter, she sort of held back her "enthusiasm" and seemed the most normal.

Some of the special effects were good, possibly the only saving grace, though someone needs to learn how to do explosions properly.

All up a waste of money and time.

It doesn't get any worse than this, who writes this crap? Talk about a predictable premise/ Aliens attack a major city instead of a location with little defense. Cheap production values all round with even worse acting. It is ridiculous that these 4 legged aliens could fly these spaceships let alone build them. They have three sets, some cheap White House room set, the inside of a fake helicopter and the inside of the family kitchen with everything else cheap CGI graphics. If you haven't yet wasted your time watching this trash please be advised you will definitely be disappointed that you did.

Wow, do I feel had! I can't believe I paid to watch this turkey. I actually didn't mind Michael Pare but the so called lead scientist guy is an absolute "richard" head... The guy has a dumb look to start with, and he's supposed to convince you as a top scientist guy, but he's a terrible actor to boot. The story wasn't too bad, could have been ok, but I bailed halfway through, I just couldn't stand to watch any more of this trash. I can't believe they still make crap like this in 2025. There is more I could say, but then there would be no chance this review gets published but I had 22 characters left to go to meet the minimum requirement.

Don't waste your time watching this... Bad script, bad acting (really bad), bad CGI. What more could you ask for?

I could only stomach this for 10 minutes, then bailed on it.

Never saw the Alien. Never saw the Rubicon.

I went back and re-watched "Aliens" just to get the taste of this thing out of my head.

Don't get it confused with Alien: Romulus which might be a better flick.

This movie should be up for a Grand Prize in this year's Golden Raspberry Awards.

I wouldn't be surprised if it swept those awards and took home a bushel of raspberries.

It's that bad. Honest.

Take a nap instead of watching this, it will be time better spent.

I've enjoyed some of The Asylum's movies and have to admit their special effects have gotten better. Many times their movies fall into the so bad and ridiculous they are great category, but unfortunately this is not one of them. For all it's OK effects, 99% of this movie is just actors standing around in a room talking about the action. If you've seen the trailer you have seen the entire minute of good stuff in this fiasco. As usual there is some LOL absurd dialogue but not enough to make this enjoyable. While watching this and being bored by it I did wonder what these actors do when they get a call telling them they got the part in a movie from The Asylum ? Cry ? Laugh and curse fate ? Wonder how they're going to spend the $45 paycheck ? Not worth watching.

That headline-question is always the last silly line of defense for an otherwise indefensible piece of garbage.

But in this case, the truth is: YES! Easily!

I bet every third person on earth could do better than this. There is no tension, no build up, no basic understanding of storytelling mechanisms at all. It is just 2,5 boring sets where the same five boring characters have stiff, unorganic dialog about a crisis that never feels like anything, because this is the reverse of "show, don't tell!" - all this movie does is tell, and poorly so. It's not even funny bad, not campy in an amusing way. It is just poor. If you want to look at something extremely poor and low effort for 90 minutes this is THE movie for you. Everyone else, stay clear! There is absolutely no entertainment to be had here.

I cannot believe Asylum got Michael Paré to play in this Alien Romulus copywrite infringement garbage. This studio has got to be breaking laws somehow by duping unsuspecting theater goers who may mistake this for the latest Alien movie Romulus, or even a newer one than that due to the "different" title "Rubicon" It is a crying shame that resources have to be wasted on trash from people who obviously have nothing to offer original in their lives but to steal others ideas and trash them so miserably. I couldn't get through just a few minutes in when I looked up the studio company and saw "Asylum" then I shut it off. Don't waste your time unless you have NOTHING else to watch at all.

It's like they went into Walmart and grabbed random people to "act" in this movie. How many takes did they go through before they just said eff it that works? The dialog was laughable and rushed, the cgi quality looks like a failing high school project. How ever if you turn the volume off it's not all that bad. All that being said it does have a very redeeming quality when the movie finally ends, feels like it drags on for awhile. All in all it's a very goofy movie but after so many bangers they were bound to drop the ball at some point. If you are a fan of the series just miss this one, it is not for you.

Ok, it's a bad movie. But I kind of enjoyed it as a 'background movie' while I was doing some other stuff at the same time.

The helicopter conversations are visibly fake and so is a lot of other stuff. The character of captain Jeffe is laughable. Paul Logan is probably doing what is expected of him but the nonv-erbals of the captain are soooo over the top, it's funny. So still kind of entertaining.

What really annoyed me, however, is the fact that the makers used the naming syntax AND image of the original 'Alien' movies. Even though we get to see some aliens (that look different, by the way) for about 3 seconds total. This is very misleading marketing and that alone is enough to not score higher than 5.

I watched this movie thinking it was the latest in the series of "Alien" movies, confusing it with the new "Alien Romulus". It was entertaining and not too long, so I did enjoy it. The plotline is fairly simple, sort of a poor man's "Independence Day". I didn't recognize any actors, and the acting was good, but not great. It might have gotten boring if it lasted two hours or more, but it was fairly entertaining for its 90 minutes duration.

You may enjoy this movie if you like the old movies from the 1950s that had flying saucers attacking Earth. This is sort of an updated version of that with better affects, although mostly done with CGI.

When I stumbled upon the 2024 movie "Alien: Rubicon" here in 2025, there wasn't even a moment's doubt in my mind that this was a mockbuster from The Asylum. Now, I hadn't even heard about the movie prior to watching it, so I had no idea what I was in for. But the movie's cover, which was quite nice actually, and the movie's title just screamed The Asylum to High Heavens.

And true enough, this was indeed a movie from The Asylum.

I have to say that writers Glenn Campbell and Tammy Klein didn't really put together a particularly thrilling or exciting script and storyline. And sitting through "Alien: Rubicon" proved to be somewhat of a challenge of wills. And to make things even more dragged out, director Adrian Avila spends a lot of the movie's run time of filming Preston Geer (playing Dr. Jeff Morrow) and Paul Logan (playing Captain Sean Jeffe) as they sit in a helicopter cockpit following the unidentified sphere around. And it grew rather tedious and boring quite quickly.

The only faces on the cast list that I was familiar with was Michael Paré, Paul Logan and Lindsey Marie Wilson. The acting performances in the movie were fair, but nothing outstanding. Truth be told, then the actors and actresses didn't really have much of any solid material to work with.

Visually, then I will say that The Asylum definitely upped their game. The CGI effects in the movie were quite good for a The Asylum movie. But it just wasn't enough to make up for the lackluster script and storyline.

I doubt that even the most hardcore of sci-fi fans will get a kick out of watching "Alien: Rubicon".

Actually, the best thing about this movie was actually the cover, sad fact, but true. And you see the aliens for maybe 2 seconds in the entire movie. Unbelievable.

My rating of director Adrian Avila's 2024 movie "Alien: Rubicon" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

Dr. Jeff Morrow (Preston Geer) had been tracking an alien signal and now is an alien object. It's an alien sphere arriving above Hudson River in New York City. American President McCoy (Michael Paré) recruits him to track the orb as it slowly crushes a straight line towards an unknown destination.

This is The Asylum. Know what you are watching. Michael Paré is nothing to sneeze at. It's nice to see him still working. The dialogue is pretty bad. I don't blame the actors. The story, the science, and the flow are all pretty bad. There is too much of the actors stuck in that horrible little situation room. It looks like they stuck a couple of little stickers on a random cheap room. The CGI looks bad, but I do look forward to the ball crushing the world. This needs more of that, but cheap CGI still costs money. This is bad, but Asylum has done worst.

Why do we have to have such a poor disaster movie that's been done so many time before but better?

The storyline is weak and predictable, the acting is unfortunately substandard and no amount of cgi can make up for a good script and convincing performance.

The movie industry appears to have died since COVID-19.

Please do not keep on trying to reinvent the wheel, it never works and just leaves the public thinking that the whole industry is in a mess?

I really don't want to make a dissertation out of this review but it would appear that you need to have at least 600 work of drivel before you can publish your review.

I was always taught "KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid". So do t force people like me to write an essay on how to to present a review of another rubbish movie that's entered the stockpile of total rubbish. Why do investors waste their money injecting cash into a production company that does t know how to produce a film?

You can always spot a poorly made film lazy direction, weak screenwriting, and uninspired performances. Casual viewers might be fooled into giving it four stars, but those who truly understand cinema see the flaws immediately. From the very first scene, everything feels off flat cinematography, predictable dialogue, and a lack of artistic vision. A great film is more than just aesthetics and spectacle; it requires depth, intentional storytelling, and performances that breathe life into every frame. This one fails on all counts.

The problem with bad films isn't just technical flaws it's the absence of passion and originality. A director with a true vision knows how to craft tension, evoke emotion, and make every frame meaningful. When a movie lacks that, it becomes nothing more than a forgettable, soulless product. Some audiences might accept mediocrity, but for those who truly appreciate cinema, it's impossible to ignore when a film is nothing more than a hollow imitation of better works.

I was hoping after reading all the bad reviews and having low expectations I can be only nicely surprised. I wasn't. This is a very low budget movie and it shows. The acting of main characters (especially "Dr Moron") is miserable, fells amateurish and artificial. The "president" looks as pathetic as Trump and his dialogs are equally bad. "Special effects" are like on computer games in 1980's. Tanks are Canadian. As in every american movie, plenty of shooting, including soldiers using rifles against UFO :-) The movie feels unnaturally empty of people, showing only a few main characters. Title and picture on the poster act as a bait, no alien is ever shown.

The low ratings on this movie wasn't enough to keep me away! Especially after someone said it looked like the cast was pulled out of a Walmart. My curiosity got the better of me so I had to check it out, then I decided to watch the whole movie. Was that chap correct about the Walmart actors? Indeed he was. If 3 cast members in particular were not in this movie, it would have fared so much better. Two were irritating, they were so bad. The only eye candy in this entire movie was the soldier, who needed a hand towel half the time, but was the main reason I kept watching. I found the movie itself to be entertaining. The story line was not bad at all but could have used a lot of help. Seems they fetched their writer, casting director and hairdresser from Walmart as well. No awards here!