Clichéd, predictable and nothing new

Rating: 6/10 (13 May 2017)

I went to see this last night with a gang from work and we ALL where looking forward to this. We had avoided reviews and spoilers and apart from a couple of clips that where available on here or the official site had nothing at all to forewarn us of what was to come.
Most of us are sorry we did now. We started off watching with such high hopes but they quickly dissipated by the lacklustre cast and very predictable and formulaic script. The characters where so bland, you simply did not care about them and it was literally a smorgasbord of 'How can we bump this one off'
We have multiple 'NEW' creature appearances, giving us umpteen ways of bumping off the boring crew members and also gave us a lead actress, who I did expect to be stronger than she was. Not like Ripley, but definitely something more than what we got which was to just whinge her way through the film.
I won't spoil any more for those who want to see it but if you watched the David / Shaw rebuild prequel clip, what transpires goes against this completely and to be brutally honest, I HATE where this film is going.
It has taken away all of the mythos and grandeur that is the original Alien and turned it into something so formulaic it beggars belief. I just cannot see why Ridley Scott chose to follow this particular path in the movie and this is a very poor follow up to Prometheus which I enjoyed immensely.
Just wish that Neill Blomkamp had been allowed to direct his version of Alien, which might have given us a new outlook and hope that after this borefest he is allowed to bring life to a now sagging franchise.