An Unwanted Alien History Lesson

Rating: 4/10 (24 May 2017)

Ridley, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? We all realize that coming up with a "new" alien movie is a challenge, but why clutter up your successful franchise with such a messy, confusing, and unwanted plot. Does the audience really care WHERE these aliens originated? Do we want to see their gory planet? This movie and Prometheus were valiant but unsuccessful in furnishing us information we could care less about. The recent LIFE movie with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds got back to the basics and scared the dickens out of us. Ridley, do the same. Get it back to the chase between humans and aliens in a confined environment which is plenty suspenseful without the distractions of sitting through ALIEN ANTHROPOLOGY 101. It's plain old boring. And one more thing: All the alien movies end somehow with an ironic but predictable "twist". The audience knows it's coming and smells it a mile away -- namely the aliens, though defeated by humans, will ultimately conquer earth. LIFE with Jake and Ryan was no different. Give us a happy ending please.. we really are angry about seeing so much ugly death and destruction, only to see the battle-worn victors vanquished by the stupid aliens. Just kill the darn things will you please? The human race is already in jeopardy, so give us something different.