Assuming everyone is tired of saying "it's better than Prometheus", but that's the best part of this great movie.

Rating: 7/10 (3 June 2017)

It starts off as the best Sci-Fi movie ever with scenes of space exploration that were visually compelling. Something that Ridley Scott is a pure master at. Like watching Michelangelo, Leonardo or one of the other ninja turtles paint a picture or sculpt a statue. It was pure Sci-Fi excellence as we watch the crew of the Convent man their ship.
And then the parts where they had to travel to the alien world was awesome. It was so cool just watching how Convent tried to make it look like this movie happen before the 1979 Alien, yet incorporate new technology that they did not know would be possible or relevant almost forty years later.
Then there was the horror part. Technically, Scott made Alien at what would be the beginning of the golden age of slasher movies and indeed 1979's Alein starts out about commercial space exploration and ends as a typical slasher movie. Scott pays homage to that with a Hard R rating in the horror. He knows he can't out do the shock of what he did in his fist collaboration with the Xenomorph, so he does not even bother. You see it coming, and it comes too fast for you to not jump out of your seat in horror.
It is weird though that I feel that some scenes paid homage to other movies in the franchise that were not directed by Scott. Most to the forefront being James Cameron's Aliens. Scott's only saving grace in ripping that guy off is that the action sequences in the film are short and sweet and not done to over blow the situation that is already made up to be intense.
The film basically gives a very psychological and artistic origin to the Xenomorth Alien not made boring by Micheal Fassbender. Michael Fassbender is brilliant in his duel role as David and Walter, two synthetics with two different agendas. But James Franco!? James Franco's little cameo in the film almost messed it up for me. It's like literally I've seen him in like a new movie every week in 2017. A little too much, but it does add to reinforcing the amazing cast filled with known names that makes up the ensemble of Alien: Convent.
It's definitely better than the previous film in the line up Prometheus, but what's cool about Alien: Convent is that it gives me an appreciation for what Prometheus was and now I like that movie better because of what this movie did.