A Great Film

Rating: 8/10 (17 May 2017)

Easily the 3rd best film in the franchise. More of a return to the ad- libby "space trucker" dialogue of the original, and much better than Prometheus in every way. Decent script, fantastic soundtrack that nicely references the original, good pacing, some great blood and guts. It reminded me of the original in that it's fundamentally a horror film in a sci-fi setting.
The actors are great, Danny McBride in particular nails his part. Katherine Waterston is very good too, nowhere near as irritating as Noomi Rapace. Meanwhile Michael Fassbander is brilliant as always.
This is Ridley's best film for a LONG time, it's much tighter than all those epics he's made in the last couple of decades. Reminded me of his early stuff.