No Labor Of Love

Rating: 4/10 (17 May 2017)

(no huge spoilers)
Personally i am a big fan of the alien franchise, no i am not the biggest know it all fan, but i can tell you that this felt nothing like an alien film.
Yes i understand, technically it isn't, but they don't even feel like they are in the same universe, i miss the lo-fi sci-fi feeling and design like the original films had, and I'm talking set design, costume design, lighting, color etc.. everything felt very rushed, lose concepts smashed together, i feel like r. Scott maybe should have left these films for someone much younger, some one who could bring new ideas to the table that didn't feel horrendously corporate, some one who would at least give the new films a little flare of classic ones.
I understand that there is a fine line between a throw back and recycling(lack of inspiration) but it the whole film just felt so wrong, i didn't even feel that suspense or "horror" i felt in the classic, this movie could maybe pass as a passive thriller, if that.
all in all this movie felt very boring and abused, no labor of love. no idea was thought about for more than 5 minutes. I must admit there were a few interesting parts, seeing bits of the development of the xeno, all the shapes and forms it came in was pretty interesting, but there was only a total of 2 minutes of that. Also the video and cinematography was alright. Sound track felt ambitious but fell severely flat, felt hollow and generic.
The twist was pretty spot able early on in the final scenes, parts of the animation looked a bit rushed at moments too.
I just wish they took their time, this was clearly engineered to try cater to everyone, but to be quite frank, it just came off as insulting
4.5 out of 10