Goodbye Mr. Ridley

Rating: 3/10 (18 May 2017)

Deeply disappointed. Sorry to say but Ridley Scott is either to old to make a good movie or he just needed the money so he agreed to film this crap. This is neither Prometheus which was not a classic alien movie but still good, nor Alien 1 or Alien 2 but it tries to be all three, quite unsuccessfully. The first two Alien movies were smart and made to detail. Prometheus was different but still refreshing and good. This one is a commercial piece of crap made for teenagers (not the smart ones). The story is bad, the action is bad, the casting bad. A few things i could not go over: -------------SPOILER ALERT-------------- ---

the crew is embarking on a totally new planet, not known before. Without even mentioning that they analyzed the air (or even filming the scene where they do), the water or the flora and fauna, they go out without gas masks or protective suites into an alien planet!! They land into water and they walk the across the lake not even wondering whether it's water or acid or maybe if there's something in there or if the bottom is sludgy, muddy or maybe just made of sharp rocks!!

the aliens are growing to full size without even eating in literally seconds or minutes!!

the aliens are breaking whichever thick glass they get in contact with (the plane cockpit, the pod glass etc.) with their heads, but the same glass cannot even be scratched with an axe. Yet that does not stop the main character fighting an alien with an axe.

the weapons don't do anything to the aliens, they're practically invincible.

the new captain is so shocked in the first few scenes and not knowing what to say once he takes over the ship - you start wondering how did the NASA or whichever company go about choosing an unstable guy who is not prepared to be captain to be second in charge and responsible for 2000 people on board. Most of the crew seems like average Joes, it's hard to believe that these people are top scientists and pilots - the dialogues are crap. Get Quentin Tarantino to write the chit - chat dialogues between the crew members, he does it good.

don't go copying the scenes from previous Alien movies, it' just bad. While Ripley used the big storage robot to fight the queen, the main character here uses a big pneumatic hand similar to a bulldozer's (which is unbelievably slow compared to the alien)

the flames and the heat from the ship's thrusters/motors can't burn the alien????

why does the lead character have to have short hair? If Ripley could pull it off that does not mean it will work again. - the characters are like copies of the Armageddon movie, and in even a worse way

leave something for the viewer to wonder about - don't put the android's hand in full frame close up. The people are not idiots, leave them to figure some stuff out for themselves. We all knew that was the second android!!

there is no suspense or horror in this movie. The first two excelled in that. They practically defined the genre.

the virus that was released killed the whole engineer nation in seconds?? There was not even an incubation period? At least 10-15 minutes like with the human soldiers?

the android's hair grows?

the crew decides to land the first shuttle through a bad "plasma" storm not even considering to wait maybe an hour for the storm to pass? They traveled for years, now they can't wait an hour or even mention that option?

There is a lot more which makes this movie bad. The quality is somewhere in the ranks of that crappy Alien 4. I would give it 3 stars for the sake off the CGI and the visual look.
Alien fans stay away! You will not regret it.