SPOILER: George Lucas level prequel

Rating: 3/10 (22 May 2017)

This movie attached itself to my face and sucked my joy out. The initial scene was again off point and disappointing. The entire issue with Weyland is tired and tangential with the original movies - Weyland just wanted money - that was clear, understandable. SOMEWHAT looking for eternal life? Now, looking for a creator? Who cares? After that, this movie started so well. It had the slow build of the first Alien movie - a wonderful thing. Was so excited. Even when the now omnipresent, ever-irritating Fassbender came out, the other members of the team were very promising, or had the capacity to be interesting. The capacity was ignored. Tennessee - a very funny character actor - was nearly ignored. There were several other actors that seemed like mercenaries - we never found out anything. Absolutely no attempt at character development. Wow. There was a Ripley stand in - never connected with her. The new captain, nervous and religious and, for some reason, disliked. No nothing about him. There was NO character development, except for the ever-irritating Fassbender. I will go into VERY FEW of the stupid plot holes, as there are probably 30, but here are the plot holes that destroyed the movie for me: 1. Why disable the ship, and then instantly fix it? Why not use this as a REQUIREMENT to find a close planet, instead of the "hey, I picked up John Denver on my space suit." Highly useless, and John Denver was never explained. 2. You explore a new planet and don't wear protective suits? 3. You go to a new planet and almost the entire crew goes out? 4. You find a new spaceship, not human, and the decision was "EVERYONE SHOULD GO IN, right now." 5. you have someone who comes down with a disease, and there is no quarantine? 6. SOMEHOW, on an alien spacecraft, an archaeologist puts an old android THAT WAS ONLY A HEAD IN A BAG back together so well that you can't tell him apart from a brand new android? 7. Why the hell does the old android have long hair? Why the hell? 8. Androids look exactly the same, you spend (probably) weeks getting ready, and have NO discussions with android about ANYTHING? (that SURE showed that Ripley was sorely needed). 9. How many hundreds of aliens do you need before you confuse the audience? I will guess "many less than were in this movie." 10. How many times can you use "the android is evil" and surprise anyone? IN THE SAME SERIES? 11. NO ONE asks any questions about all the dead things in the courtyard? AND FINALLY, 12. You see a dead team member next to an android OBVIOUSLY trying to protect an alien, you follow the android into the dripping, misty cellar, and fall for "hey, look at this." I never recovered from that.