A little predictable, a little over-the-top, but not a complete disgrace

Rating: 6/10 (24 May 2017)

Ridley Scott has gotten entirely out of hand with lazy writing (which the characters suffer from immensely) and is just getting too eager. Especially since he wants to fill this franchise with at least 3 more Alien prequels.
The first half of the movie is ten times more enjoyable than the second half. I don't even want to get into how stupid the characters are in the film (especially Oram) because three quarters of that is due to the lazy writing. Sticking your head into an unknown gestation pod after being led into the bowels of an unknown alien vessel guided by an unknown android who had JUST led you into a city full of corpses in which he is the only inhabitant? So responsible.
Truly, Prometheus suffered from this movie as well. As many fans were looking for a few more answers and an explanation as to 1) what's going on with the Engineers and why they want to kill humanity and 2) how an android with limited tools and capabilities bred the xenomorphs to begin with. All these things are thrown out the window.
Critically, it's not excellent. But personally, I still enjoyed what was put in front of me. If that makes me easy to please or have low standards than so be it. But the stupidity of the crew was actually more funny to me than it was inherently frustrating. There would be little plot if the characters were extremely smart, and that's a huge driving force in all horror. That being said, it still lost a lot of originality and relied too much on cheap horror tropes, which apparently I was wrong to think that Ridley Scott wouldn't fall prey to.
Despite me enjoying it a little, I am still praying nightly for the Blade Runner sequel because of it.