Go idiots go...

Rating: 5/10 (9 July 2017)

Good lord, another film in the Alien series. Can it be better - no it cannot.. If there is one thing I despise about any horror/sci-fi film is the characters inability to a)follow protocols and b)make good decisions - if both these were followed, this could have been a decent film. Yet again we have a massive ship on a massive mission commanded by people ("scientists") who are utterly incapable of following orders, using protocols or making a good decision. Anyone who goes into space as we all know, undergoes a lot of physical and psychological examination as well as training to even get into space. It obviously lacked it in this film, the crew of idiots who put a whole mission in jeopardy, which to most human beings they would not have. Explore an unknown planet, don't go near it, satellite first, atmospheric checks, ground terrain checks. Send down probes/robots/androids - and that takes years. Humans go down, full atmospheric suits, protocols, orders, years and years later. Alien pathogen, full bio hazard protocols, one gets infected, all infected, no going back. All above ignored at the expense of 'gung-ho' film making. Acting was good apart from the bad script writing as above. Visual effects good. CGI, passable. Film length good - it did draw you in albeit with gritted teeth for the irritating decisions and inept crew. One big thing that really did annoy was the whole story was based on an android going rogue. This to me breaks protocol again - remember Assimovs rules of robotics, number one being to no hurt/kill humans - ignored. Overall, take away crew ineptness, it was entertaining and that was about it!