Made little or no sense

Rating: 3/10 (15 May 2017)

With high expectations I saw this as soon as it was released but I came out disappointed that a great opportunity to advance the 'Alien' worldscape was lost by plot and sense errors. Yes the crew are on a long voyage to a potential colony world but to veer off course to investigate a mysterious signal then land on it with no advance scanning to see if any potential threats existed before setting out to explore it made no common sense. How many potential colonists set foot on an alien and light up a cigar, wear no protective masks and wander about willy nilly? One even wanders off to have a cigarette on his own. The actors tried to make the best of a weak script and very little is explained as to why, how or when the mysterious signal was sent. The best part of this oh so predictable movie is the visual effects especially when arriving at the mysterious world and it's wild weather, but wooden characters deplete what could've been a classic