Very Disappointing & Detracts from the Franchise

Rating: 3/10 (10 June 2019)

This movie was very disappointing to me. The visuals are great with all the typical jump scares and bloody, body horror you'd want and expect from an Alien movie. The acting was also good, particularly Waterston and Fassbender. But the writing is just not up to par with this one. The story seems like a thrown together mess that they didn't bother to think through properly. Especially disappointing is the incredibly predictable "twist" at the end. Everyone knows exactly what is coming so what's the point of even doing it? I don't want to give any spoilers but none of the characters deliver any surprises and most of them just exist to be killed at some point by the aliens. The backstory of the manufactured disease/alien xenomorphs is also just bizarre and for me it detracts from the overall mythos of the Alien franchise storyline. Hopefully the next film gets this franchise back on track. I really enjoyed Prometheus for what it was, but they're really going down a bad road here and I'm not sure they'll be able to repair the damage done.