Both brilliant and dumb

Rating: 5/10 (18 February 2019)

* For Alien fans this movie is fine. For casual watchers who view it completely unaware of what was or is going to be, it is kind of great. I know that seems confusing when this is a real inbetween film but hear me out on this one. It is truly a jack of all trades, master of none.
* It is a solid sci-fi, horror, drama and action film. But most of all it is a David's film. He is struggling of proving his Godly status while becoming more and more human but still being an android. And Michael Fassbender does an incredible job at portraying that. It is strange how this film has so many badly written scenes but almost everything surrounding David is spot on. Pacing of this film and its structuring dont work well. It begins similar to Alien and then Prometheus but after some excitement it lingers in one place becoming what it was meant to be, a character study movie. The third act goes fully action and suspense but not in a way you might expect which I kind of liked.
* The creatures are all pretty good looking except at the start where this newly born Neomorph comes out all bloody and slimy but not looking or moving very realistically. The last creature is not used to my liking. It looked very good but it jumped around silly and never felt really formidable. The camera work could have been better.
* The movie itself is beautiful as every previous Scott's effort. It could have been longer. What I mean by that is before watching it I actually searched google to find the best way to watch this film because I saw these extra trailer scenes that presumably arent in the film. So, I went through all of them before getting to my main coarse and I did not like that.