A huge letdown in several aspects

Rating: 6/10 (10 August 2017)

OK so I just watched this movie and I have to admit I was excited. Finally an Alien movie with an actual Alien in it, directed by Ridley Scott, rated R, OK cast, even the trailers looked good. It is sad that this movie turned out to be such a disappointment. For the first 30- 40 minutes, nothing is really happening. I guess they went for some sort of build-up like in the original '79 movie, but they nailed it so much better back then. Those scenes were not pointless, they were building characters and the whole environment. In my opinion, spending 10-15 minutes on a pointless random neutrino storm and repairing parts of the ship that never going to be used later in the movie is just pointless.
The characters are bland and uninteresting. I don't even remember more than 2-3 names from the movie. You don't really care about most of them either, they're just there to be slaughtered. The deaths are also pretty predictable, you can instantly tell who's going to bite the dust next. There could be maybe one exception, but as there was still about 20 minutes left from the movie, you could kind of guess that OK, that short time was enough for that guy to get impregnated after all. And the decisions the characters make throughout the movie, my God. That infamous 'slipping on blood twice' scene was almost like slapstick comedy.
I was reading other reviews about the whole alien mythology, and I have to agree with them. According to this movie, Xenomorphs are just the creation of a mad android. WTF. This just dishonors the whole species. I didn't mind the different types Xenomorphs in the second act, but it was probably the biggest disappointment to me, that they replaced the original practical Alien with CGI. And they even executed it poorly, it looked like something from 1998. I don't even write anything about the sexual tension between Michael Fassbender and Michael Fassbender. It was just weird. But I have to admit, I have never seen anything like that before, so there goes some kind of credit. And later, the android tries to rape (I guess) the female protagonist as well? Who came up with these ideas?
The ending 'twist' was so obvious from start that it genuinely surprised me that they still tried to present it as an actual twist.
Well, this looks pretty harsh, all in all there were some good stuff in there as well, but I was just so upset with all this nonsense crap. I still gave it a 6 out of 10 for great (in camera) visuals, nice soundtrack, some fine performances (although the female lead never gets even close to Sigourney Weaver or Noomi Rapace), and the rated R stuff is pretty bloody and satisfying. But all in all, it was just a huge letdown.
Sorry for my lame English, this was my first review. And seriously.. 'you blow, I'll do the fingering' ?? That's not something I want to hear in an Alien movie.