Alienoid: The Return to the Future (2024) User Reviews

Past informing the future

[kosmasp · 7/10 · 8 February 2024]

Actually in the movie it is the present. Which would also be the past if you look at it from "reality". So as always: no pun intended. I would need to go back and write that in all my reviews. I watched both movies (the sequel and the original that is) at a Film Festival.

And it is the best setting to watch a movie like this. I reckon if you can: watch it in a cinema. And maybe (re)watch the first movie. There is a recap at the beginning, but if you have it freshly watched, if does make sense. The tone is all over the place (like the movie itself) ... being funny and serious at the same time sometimes ... there are consequences and you have a real threat to humanity here ... which is why the movie either works or breaks for you. Action scenes are really well made and the CGI is also nice ... but is that enough? You decide ... just don't let earth down ...

Better than first one

[transkohmer · 6/10 · 22 March 2024]

I found the 1st one being generic and a bit boring, but I watched this sequel anyway.

To my surprise, it is way better than the 1st one. Everything works just fine for me and the way they manage to connect all the characters and stories together in the finale is pretty impressive.

U will need to watch the 1st one, in order to fully enjoy this 2nd latest sequel. Ignore about the bad gossip of Ryu Jun-yeol and Han So Hee, bcos i don wanna it to spoil my movie experience.

Overall, it has average or above average quality, definitely not a bad production or B movie. Still holding the good reputation of korean film industry.

A poorly recycled version of the first film, ruined a good story

[moviemanmo973 · 2/10 · 27 January 2024]

The first film was intriguing and entertaining. The ending clearly indicated there would be a sequel and I was excited for it.

Unfortunately this is not a very good sequel.

It seems this sequel was made without any ideas as to how it would continue the story of the first film. There wasn't anything relatively new or fresh. There was only the addition of one new character. There were a couple of extra scenes to fit that character into the story but otherwise this was the same movie as the first. In addition, they attempted to give importance to a character from the first film that had no significance in that film. They developed her storyline and tied it with that of the new character and it wasn't interesting. She shouldn't have been part of this story. With the focus of the film trying to tie these stories to the already existing story it just made this story unnecessarily complex.

All of the characters from the previous film don't shine as they did before. The characters were pretty bland even the ones that were funny before.

The acting and special affects were on par with the first film. And that's mainly because they used the same special affects as the previous installment. This story lost the imagination it had. There weren't any new ideas, no new weapons or special skills.

This felt like an unnecessary sequel and made the ending to first film seem pointless. They tried to make the story come full circle but all they was give the first film a mediocre ending.