And I really liked the Alien franchise

Rating: 2/10 (13 October 2018)

The computer animated aliens in this movie were laughably bad, worse even than alien3 which had a lot of technological limitations... appropriate use of costuming and prosthetics made the overall movie watchable, but this movie has no such redeeming qualities. There appeared to be some actual physical items used for the face-hugger sequences, but that scee was far too short. There also appeared to be a complete lack of consensus on the size that these creatures were supposed to be and so they seemed to be disproportionately sized to themselves from one frame to the next... seemingly to magically transform from the size of a soccer ball to the height of a human in a single camera pan. Any increase in effect resolution gained over the years was negated by that sort of nonsense which caused the alien to be very cartoon-like and not at all a threat. Hijacking bits of the original Alien soundtrack in an effort to elicit any feelings of nostalgia felt rather insulting. I have no interest in watching your computer-generated cartoon. The appeal of the original films was primarily how visceral and real they felt, the further you aim from that target, the worse of a result you manage to produce. I give 2 stars because the on board ship sets were well crafted and looked legit. Too bad, could have really made a great movie on sets like those.