The Worst of the Alien Series

Rating: 4/10 (24 September 2017)

Well, there is certainly nothing new in Mr Alien's neighborhood this year. Its the same old story repeated once again, but this time with a colonization ship with 2000 colonists and hundreds of human embryos in cold storage as the crew comes out of cryo an unknown signal calls from an unknown planet and the wimpy "replacement captain" wants to check it out against the better judgment of his next in command. (does this sound familiar?) It picks up where Prometheus left off but somewhere along the time line between the two movies Ridley Scott's internet comment about the next picture having no Xenormorphs (aliens) apparently was quashed by the studio who must have insisted on alien monsters to keep the supposedly muddled masses of movie goers happy. Unfortunately, I have seen more creative story lines in Muppet movies and better acting in high school plays. Eventually the original David, our beloved synthetic human from Prometheus, shows up to confront the new David made specifically for this mission, but he has gone bad and gone on a murderous rampage and now wants to "eliminate" all humans because we are a "dying race" and need to be replaced with something more like David? The only good thing about this film is the beautiful location shooting particularly in New Zealand and Australia. That may have taken the lions share of the budget leaving only scraps to pay film school actors and hire the hack writers who couldn't come up with a new idea if they were paid, and believe me, they were.