Awful

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2017)

OK so you are responsible for possibly the best Sci-Fi franchise of all time. Fans have been avidly following the Alien time line for years and years, decades even. And this is what they get served up with? Canned pap! After the end of the Ripley years, I suspect people will have been waiting very patiently for this offering, hopping that we would get to grips with the back story that is the beast. Prometheus 1, which i thought OK didn't really help and left more questions than answers. Then we were tantalised with the prospect of not just 1 but 2 new Alien films. So just what were we served up? 1, Don't they Syc evaluate Astronauts of the future? What, they simply pick 22 people of the unemployment lines, throw a suitcase full of money at them and then ask them to fall apart as soon as any problem pops along? I guess in the film Apollo 13, they weren't really marooned in the cap, but were robotically guided by robots and ground crew? 2, In all if not the majority of the film series, quarantine rules are constantly ignored, with the Alien not needing a single 'o' level in how am I going to breach this space craft rigged for space running and the horrors of propelling a 1,000mtr long space craft through simply the most frightening terrain imaginable, No all you have to do is infect a host, and the numpties who are the hosts fellow crew members simply bring you inside, where you can rock 'n' roll through the crew to your hearts content. 3, Once inside you then can seemingly move with ease through this humongous space ship with insider knowledge only possibly obtainable from the ships designers, who of course aren't actually on this afor-mentioned ship and thus the beast could not know anything about the ship? 4, Before all this, the crew is diverted from their main task of delivering the cargo of potential colonists all 3,000+ of them including embryos, simply on the word of one of those un-syc evaluated astronauts, and at the behest of a John Denver record. Clearly this captain has well exceeded his intellectual capacity for captaincy. Best stick to ships cook or busboy? And the list goes on and on.
I have given the film a 5 as the special effects a some of the best i have ever seen and possibly why i will be waiting with baited breath for the next instalment of the goon show. In the fallen hope that Ridley sorry Sir Ridley, will endeavour to give us true Alien fans a film worthy of its name, Please