Bland with boring characters...

Rating: 2/10 (1 July 2017)

General problems with the movie:
Boring characters with no personalities. We don't get to know them. So we don't care when they die.
Spaceship is too bright, shiny and new. Space travel is just like driving car in this movie. There is nothing to it, it seems. It lacks atmosphere. Unlike the first Alien movie this spaceship was probably brand new and made especially for this trip, so it makes sense from a storytelling point of view. But it is just not as interesting. Why did the they name the computer "mother". Every ship should have a computer with a unique name. This is just lazy.
Aliens are out in the open. Not lurking and hiding. They don't scare you because you pretty much always know when they are around. And the characters know it too.
The plot twist took me 1 second to figure out.
The origin of the xenomorphs de-mystfy them and somehow makes them less scary.
Aliens no longer seem to mimic what their hosts used to be.
Characters are less stupid than in Prometheus but still...They land on a foreign planet and immediately they decide to split up. Cliché much? And lets not bother with masks or space suits. There are probably no diseases here, right.
Back at the drop-ship one of the female crew panics and locks another female in the medical room because of fear of spreading the disease. But she had her face covered with blood of the sick dude. And she did not even wipe it off. So much for that fear. Even if she was doing it out of fear it was very irrational. When the locked in female was attacked by the alien could she be more ineffective with that knife? Lesson: No women in space! :)
And then there is a shower scene where two crew members ignore the horror around them an decide to have sex. Like a Friday the 13th movie they get brutally murdered. Not by Jason but by an alien who entered the shower room undetected. They had sex without locking the door? And we have to see a tit before they are killed - obviously. A little treat for the young folks.
Why was the "Engineer"-people's settlement built of stone and resembled something from ancient Rome?
The scene where the Riply-wannabe woman was hanging of the spaceship battling the alien....sigh....ridiculous.... The pilot was against extending the crane because it made the spaceship unstable. But I seem to remember that his flying was not exactly up to par before that. Bouncing around like an idiot.
Why is it impossible to make good movies nowadays !???
1979 Alien 1980 Empire strikes back 1982 Bladerunner 1982 The Thing 1983 Return of the Jedi 1984 The Terminator 1985 Back to the Future 1986 The Fly 1986 Aliens 1987 Robocop 1987 Predator 1989 The Abyss
What a f...... decade!!!? And I probably forgot one or two. Movies today a trash.