Alien Cov

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2017)

Briefly-most other reviews expressed-articulated the blaring flaws-reflect my own take away on this film. My greatest disappointment was that Dr Shaw (Rapace) wasn't in it. To me the continuity would have carried more intrigue if she ended up battling it out with the sinister David (Android with an Odepius complex)... She embodied Prometheus's story-line with an engaging moralistic quest to find the "truth" that naturally carried over to the next installment.
She knew what deviousness David was capable of-the natural thing would be to keep him in check...until...
Given the price tag to make this film ($97M) it doesn't seem it would have been insurmountable to add Rapace as the former protagonist role played convincingly by SW - in keeping with precedent.
I liked the follow through with the protagonist's journey-the critical thread.
The monstrous flesh eating acid drooling Alien species is so predicated upon the franchise's bottom line that its lost appeal.
David becomes the Alien and must be destroyed.
That's the moral deliminator we face with our advanced robotic technology today. Consider the late Alan Turing's thesis on morphogenetic quantum Zeno evolution -which certainly taps into the plausibility of unknowingly morphing our own DNA into a complex adaption to an unknown Ancestral memory of our origin perhaps brought on by a heightened consciousness (Lucy) accidentally attained by taking a flawed pharmaceutical psych med.
Mr Scott is a brilliant artist in bringing us game changing cinematic blockbusters.
But he seems to have lost touch after all the previous sequels as to the "Genesis" archetype of our human origin curiosity of which the answer really might be somewhere in the vast cosmos. Too bad Carl Sagan wasn't available for a consultation.
It seems that Scott ran out of credible plot twists to further the quest by an interlinked human desire to bring the anthropological evidence discovered on earth to bare its truth of origin in the ubiquitous indigenous drawn star clustered glyphs similarly found around the world.
I gave 5 stars - emblematic of the Star Cluster Glyph.
Plot line and the OMG WTH retro clumsy space cowboy antics failed miserably.
The question remains: Where did our DNA originated-even if it's just sci-fi. Disappointed that we lost Dr. Shaw to find the answer.
Ergo, there is an element of truth in the story-line that had me on edge till this sequel came out. Moreover I loved Rapace's performance. Dr. Shaw was smart enough not to succumb to David's dark side. She was intuitively aware of his flaw.
Five minutes into it and I could see this was a rehash of all that came before. Yawn. It felt tired and worn out. No spark of Scott's ingeniously creative spellbinding twists.
PS. I can watch Prometheus over and over-the best sequel in the Alien franchise. IMHO