RIP Alien

Rating: 1/10 (13 June 2017)

This movie is bad as in really bad.
I honestly have no idea why anybody would consider making and then releasing this movie. The acting is wooden and the story line is simply preposterous.
I loved the original Alien movie and actually saw it when it was released decades ago. What made this movie so great was the believable characters and the story line. A simple chance encounter with something absolutely terrifying and with no means of getting away from it. When the alien was first introduced all those years ago what made it so fantastic was that there was no explanation as to where it came for, it was like it was some long buried dark horror that had been abandoned in some dark corner of the universe. Add to this the signal that come from the ship that later transpired to be a warning, "keep away". Alien really was the stuff of nightmares and fired the imagination that if something like this could be out there, what other horrors could also be lurking out there.
In this mind blowing stupid new movie, they take this very simple story line and try to twist it into something else. They try to offer an explanation as to where this terror came from. It turns out the alien was created a few years before by a robot, which of course was created by us. Not cool, not even remotely believable and this has put the final nail in the coffin of alien franchise.
It's too late, the story line is now in complete tatters and it is time to call it a day on this and finally lay to rest the Alien.