What happened?

Rating: 1/10 (10 July 2017)

So this film was actually a pretty bad movie in the Alien series. It's quite sad because I thought it was going to be exciting. I thought that because Ridley Scott was directing it then this movie would be just as good as Prometheus. In a video that I saw, Ridley Scott said this was an "A" movie and Alien was a "B" movie...
So lets start from he top and I'll try to tell you everything that I remember. I'll try to keep it short.
At the very start of the movie we have acting that I don't particularly think is good from the crew. Now that one actor who usually plays comedic roles is actually doing a good job playing a more serious part but I'm still not satisfied. The captain of this ship quickly dies at the start and the actor who plays him is most likely only in the film because he's friends with the comedic actor that I was just talking about. Quite sad to bring him in this film just because of that but then again that's just what I think.
The film tries to make us feel sorry for them but I don't care. I just started watching this film like 5 minutes ago. We then have the camera stay on this one woman character for a while who seems to be the next Ripley character. Seems like this formula is apparent and needed in the series...
A signal shows up from some close planet of someone singing a song and the new captain says lets go there. It's honestly the most dumbest thing that someone can do, especially in his position. Especially since these people are supposed to make a new colony. The captain wants to go there because there may be humans there and he doesn't feel like his crew wants to go back to sleep.
Lets get this straight. His crew doesn't want to go back to sleep and would rather go to some new planet that they just found that has some suspicious recorded message of a person singing. I don't care if it's a recording of two people asking for help. It's best to stay on the mission. 2000 lives> two people on one planet. Also would you rather go to sleep now and travel to the far off new earth or start your new life on some random unknown planet?
Where was I? So they go down and they take off their helmets and breath that fresh air. So illogical especially for "scientist." Someone gets infected or something and it happens so quick. Were apparently given the idea that these new alien species just grow faster than the others. OK I'm cool with that but in the future scenes the crab like alien infects someone and that alien grows at the same paced as these new ones so where's the difference? Wheres the consistency? The answer is, there is none. This movie is the product of suits or Ridley has basically lost his touch with how a movie is made. I personally feel that the only directors to really stand by now is Christopher Nolan and James Cameron because they consistently put out good films.
Lets continue. So some of the crew go down and some new aliens show up and that guy who got infected births one. These new aliens know how to do judo kicks and stuff. Its cool to see the aliens do new stuff but I'm personally not used to it and the graphics really throw me off. Like it looks good in some scenes but most aren't. Just looks too cgi and that's the thing about this movie. It's like all cgi. In some scenes the alien looks really good though.
So the David character from the last film saves them. He brings them to his lab and they find a city full of dead people covered in something. David says you can look and wander around like this is your home. Nobody asks questions about the weird stuff that he has just out in the open. He has long hair and just cuts it in one scene. Weird huh? To just change like that because of visitors? Seems a little bit too fishy for me but not for these characters.
So new David and old David talk for this one scene. I rolled my eyes so hard. I personally felt that this scene was done just to show you how perfect the scene is. Because they made this one actor interact with himself pretty much seamlessly for such a long shot. What a joke!
I think I'm done talking about the movie. Like this one planet got wiped because of the old David yet these engineers just let it happen and they weren't even spread out on other planets close to it??? Like it just blows my mind how bad this movie really is. The engineers are so much more advanced than humans and the old David and the old David just walks in and pours black liquid over all the engineers on this one planet in the sky. It doesn't make any sense.
Now I'm sure there are more engineers out there in space on different planets but to really just sit down and watch this was hard.There was this one part where the new Ripley tries to be a hero and is dangling from the ship and it just looks terrible and is way too over the top. Any human with common sense wouldn't put their life on the line on a metal rope outside on the ship to try and kill an alien while the ship itself is having trouble staying a float in the sky.
Honestly, I'm so done talking about this film. Watch another movie. Hopefully a true fan of the alien series does make a new alien film someday.