Only Ridley Scott could make this. Tent-pole film for misanthropes

Rating: 8/10 (20 May 2017)

If your favorite film in the franchise is 'Aliens' you may not like this. Jim Cameron cares about people. He was disappointed the third in the series killed off Newt and Hicks. For Cameron, in the end, good people with enough pluck and ingenuity win. Ridley Scott wanted the alien to rip Sigourney Weaver's head off. Ridley Scott thinks good humans are fatally flawed. They are too rash and emotional. Their love for others gets them killed. Their desire for knowledge gets them killed.
If you come to this movie with a colder, cynical viewpoint: to watch humans become tools, subject to inner and outer forces beyond their control, you will likely enjoy this. Big, atmospheric, beautiful, strange, Boschian, and pitch black. A tense, grotesque, Gothic Ridley Scott fever dream with a few mainstream bones thrown for action fans. Despite it's big budget and tent-pole campaign this is more of a cult film and will not appeal to many.
A point or two off because some digital creature rendering was dodgy.