Not bad but I wouldn't call it good

Rating: 5/10 (9 July 2017)

I can say that this movie was better than Prometheus but worse than Alien. It's a retelling of an old story and nothing fresh is really told in this movie. Chests bursting, aliens sucking a human's face, egg laying, a crazy android, one of the aliens surreptitiously sneaking onto the ship only to be cast out into space and the strong female lead.
If you've watched all the Alien franchise then there really are no spoilers. Like when I saw the scene where David cuts his hair to resemble Walter I pretty much figured out the end of the plot...... and I have a feeling that I was not alone in this very simple deduction. He was going to infect the crewmembers. Shocking! It wasn't believable to me that the captain of a ship would change a course of a ship that is on a seven-year journey just to investigate a planet. A journey like that would've taken ten to twenty years to plan. No captain worth his salt would endanger the lives of two thousand people to play Columbus. The most a captain would do is register the discovery in the ship's log and report it to Earth. It's just common sense! Had the authorities on Earth ordered them to investigate then I wouldn't have thought Billy Crudup's character, Oram, incompetent nor would I be happy with the way he died.
The one thing that took my attention was Danny McBride's performance. I'm glad he is making an effort to break away from his usual comedic roles and take on more serious roles. He proved that he can hold his own, however, it was just sad to see him work with such bad dialogues.