Humpty Dumpty is back on the wall...

Rating: Null/10 (1 June 2017)

Ridley Scott has managed to put Humpty Dumpty back together again but, of course, all of the sutures are in plain sight. Ridley is getting old and may not have much more time here...and he knows it. In this film, it seems to me, he's trying to get back to the original story which was about the "Alien"...what is it, how do we fight it and how do we get rid of it? Not about derelict spaceships, engineers or the origin of humans and xenomorphs. "Prometheus" should have been a completely separate story or, as might have been intended, just a chapter in the overall (his)story but since so many were demanding the two be put together as one, their wish was his command. If one focuses and dispenses with all of the stuff and nonsense, one will see that this film is the setup for what would/will/did eventually bring Ripley and the Nostromo into the story line. If Ridley is not able to do the future films himself, I submit he has prepared a template for whomever takes over the helm, enabling them, if they choose, to integrate all of the parts to come up with a whole.