Predictable and Unsurprising

Rating: 6/10 (10 July 2017)

All throughout this film there's moments where things could take an interesting turn but for some reason don't, as if Ridley Scott was forced to make it.
From the beginning we have losses, losses through clichÃ© moments used to establish the good vs the bad, losses which offer potential that's unrealised and makes you question why this has to be the narrative of those characters, and losses which people seem to get really easily over to the point where it's more than just them focusing on the mission, I mean it's like the actors weren't even told that the scene they were acting in would be post them losing someone.
The CGI, although not horrid and aside from the Alien, it does seem like a bit of a rushed job and is kind of immersion breaking.
There's lots of interesting concepts which aren't fully explored, like if with enough time Walter could have the freedoms of David, Walter and David's relationship, and why were the predecessors to humans so primitive in contrast to their advanced capabilities. I will say that I don't know if I liked this primitive look the creators of humans had thing all too much, as I liked the mystery we've had with it so far in the franchise, unless I forgot something in the previous films where their culture was revealed.
The whole film seems to fit this cookie cutter role, where the outcomes are pretty damn predictive, unsurprisingly are there to capture emotion from the audience but also make space for a sequel, and don't often enough leave a lot of mystery up until their realisation.
At least Ridley's still able to capture that anger, sadness, frustration, and all of those feelings, and the movie doesn't feel like a chore to watch as it moves quite swiftly.
It's an okay film, and it has moments which peak the curiosity and creativity, but they're too far apart and few, and there's nothing new here with what the Aliens do. I mean it's people go to a planet, some get turned into Aliens and no one knows what to do other than that Aliens are bad, a few people die just to get that shock value and to kill them off for added isolation, and at the end the Alien dies I give it a 5.5/10.