Incompetent weirdos fail a mission.

Rating: Null/10 (25 July 2017)

They fail due to making a series of stupid rash decisions made under no pressure whatsoever, placing themselves in a position to make even more stupid rash decisions. Am I talking about the plot of this film?
No. I'm talking about the people that made this film.
This movie must have been written by a xenomorph. There is no other explanation for how this movie turned out to be so single-mindedly nasty and stupid. If it were written by human beings you have to accept the following; that the fans of this franchise are stupid, don't remember what has come before and logically expect highly trained astronaut scientists to make rash decisions that make no logical sense whatsoever. It was as though this movie was a lesson in pathological self sabotage. You also have to presume that the makers of this film just don't care and threw something together without any planning and forethought at all and made a half baked movie to meet some deadline that was soon approaching. Or something. Yeah let's go with that.
This film was meant to continue what was hinted at in Promotheus. As problematic as that film was, it did explore some cool concepts, stuff everyone expected to be fleshed out by this film. Instead its a poor remake of the first Alien with some petty guff that is meant to explain why the xenomorphs were made in the first place. I hope later films debunk this and at least make the reason more plausible, dramatic and satisfying.
This movie actually contains the word "Alien" in the title, but only shows one for about five minutes out of a two hour film. Even then its a poor copy of a previous fight Ripley had against the queen in the second film, even going so far as copying one line of her dialog. Ridley Scott used to make films with some originality. I'm not entirely certain if this film isn't a tongue in cheek spoof of his own work, but played straight. And poorly. In it's defense I will say to the other reviewers complaining about other types of xenomorphs suddenly being introduced (plant life through the air for example), the third film had a dog hybrid alien and the fourth had a Ripley/Alien hybrid too.