It could have been as bad as Prometheus

Rating: 5/10 (18 October 2017)

The visuals of this movie are pretty good and occasionally the characters are interesting, but mostly this is the sort of film where people have to keep doing stupid things just to move the plot forward. It's exactly like a Star Trek where the two top officers and the ship's doctor go down to an unknown planet without hazmat suits. M class planets are dangerous. I try to avoid contact with unknown pools of water, but they immediately jump into a lake without waders. You see a rover type bot sitting on the ramp of the ship while most of the humans go off to their dooms. For 90 bucks they could have picked up a drone at BJs and gotten a better idea of what they were getting into.
The themes of Prometheus are a little better developed, but the whole story of a being disappointed with his creator has been done before. The makers of this film are obviously disappointed with their creator, evolution, which they don't seem to understand. The Fassbinder character does have some charisma, which makes the film much more watchable at the end, but even he is illogical for no reason at key moments. It's hard to give up on the Alien franchise but I'd rather see another Alien vs Predatorthan this pretentious glop.