What happened, Ridley?

Rating: 1/10 (18 January 2020)

Ridley Scott was once a great director. His first feature film, The Duellists, is one of my all-time favourites. What the FLIP happened to him? This movie isn't just bad, it's totally fricking crazy. It seems to be bits of half a dozen completely different movies in different genres stuck together with sellotape.
On the upside, 90-95% of the time it looks great. But the other 5-10% of the time it looks totally pathetic. The spaceship interiors are wonderfully realised and the locations for the on-planet scenes are gorgeous. But the xenomorph effects are some of the worst CGI I've seen since the 90s, and the less said about the bonkers back-story cut-scene in the middle the better.
Everything in this movie is so bad it's hard to pick a worst element, but if I had to I'd go for the script. It reads like it was written by a bunch of monkeys with a cliche-generator in the space of a couple of hours over a particularly boozy Hollywood lunch. Every single line is terrible, and the story (what little there is of it) is so full of holes it's laughable.
The movie adds nothing to the Alien(s) universe. All the bits that are supposed to be clever references back to earlier Alien films just come across as lazy and unorignal. Just like the xenomoprh, this franchise seems to be impossible to kill. If I never see anything ejected from an airlock ever again it'll be too soon.