Good horror, not for the intellectually elitist

Rating: 7/10 (12 August 2017)

The reviews around this movie have all stemmed from how stupid the characters and writing is. I get it. But people need to be reminded of a few things:

When people land on strange planets and immediately see their friends giving birth to animals, they tend to go into fight or flight and great decisions aren't made.

This is a colonization expedition. Sure it would be nice to have spacesuits on when you explore the planet, but these people had the mindset they're staying. leaving the spaceship without a suit is not that far fetched. They could have spent 4 years on that planet without spacesuits and never run into that virus. Why not assume the planet is livable? They're there to test the livability of the planet. Wouldn't it be nice to know if the planet isn't livable without a spacesuit prior to releasing the 2000 colonists you have on board?

Choosing to go to the planet in the first place was a sound decision. Captain just burned to death in his sleep, damage to the ship, and discovering a new planet with better stats than the original mission as well as an earth originated distress signal, and a 2 week flight time vs 7 years??? Yeah that's a pretty solid calculated risk.

They're aliens. Again, most people are not going to react intelligently when the SHTF in this scenario. The captain following David down the basement to the eggs isn't far fetched. He was relatively cautious, had to assume the android could not knowingly hurt him, and probably at that point after losing his wife just wanted to know what the heck was going on. OK, staring in an alien egg after all that is dumb, but the viewer has to allow these dumb decisions as plot points otherwise there's no movie.

The fact that David created the Aliens sucks, but it doesn't ruin the franchise for me. Aliens are Aliens. They're scary as F either way. Maybe it makes sense that the perfect biological being did not occur through nature?

As an Alien film, I liked it #3 right behind the first 2. Still far behind but a solid addition. The movie was beautiful, nobody can deny the visuals, and it was action packed (SHTF about 20 minutes in and there was almost no downtime after). The Alien births were exremely well done, imo best in the franchise, especially the back burster. It was gory as heck and very dark and desperate.
We just need to get over the fact that there will never be another Alien or Aliens. The fans asked Ridley Scott for more xenomorphs after Prometheus and more gore and got it. You can't have gore and horror in an intellectually stimulating package and well written script unless you're one of the 5 movies in cinema history who had a perfect storm come through and hit it.
It was worth watching to me