Aliennnnnnnn....no.

Rating: 5/10 (16 May 2017)

OK; you've read enough spoilers if you want to so I'm not going to waste time point by point analising the gaping plot holes.
The Good: Cinematography, sound track, sound, actors. The Bad: Direction, Script, plot, editing.
My main beef is with Ridley Scott. He's 79 and still trying to re- capture the originality and feel of a movie franchise he had the benefit of kicking off in 1979. In attempting to inter-mingle stereotypical horror tropes and unfathomably stupid character decisions into a convoluted species origin story, he's missed a perfect opportunity to create something original. Instead he's managed only to combine all the worst elements of it's predecessors into a grab bag of the mundane. On it's own it's a passable yet confusing long winded horror flick. As an integral part of a fictional fan universe, it's an unmemorable blip.