Battlefield Earth Meets Its Match, OMG

Rating: 2/10 (13 February 2018)

I'm can't believe I fell for this yet again! Still believing that Ridley Scott has an a amazing Alien film left in him after the utterly dreadful Prometheus and the swift decline of Alien quality since Aliens in 1986. What on earth is going on, and why is this man still directing films in 201x? I'm so angry at myself for falling for it AGAIN!
It's absolutely mind-blowingly bad and does nothing more than milk the Alien name for the benefit of all those involved.
The best way to describe this film is a scene near the end when the captain of the ship disobeys the instruction of the android not to shoot the alien specimen, but riddles it with bullets instead. Great! The captain then commands the android to stand down, only for the android to whisk itself away and get the captain to follow it for some strange reason (that Michael Fassbender is a charming fellow, you know). It's still mildly plausible at this point, except when they enter into a room filled with alien cocoons on the ground, and the previously untrustworthy android tells our captain not to worry about his impending doom, but to take a closer look inside the egg! Are you kidding me? What do you think happens to our captain, hmmm? Any guesses?
This total disrespect for us as brain-dead viewers is the most offensive thing of all and not acceptable in any way, or to use the 'Alien' brand to draw us into watching utter crap like this. But for some reason there are still idiots like me who cling to the name in the hope of something decent one day. Why? This franchise is 20-years dead, and Ridley Scott... you got me again. I'm so angry.
So it's my fault, your fault, and all of our collective faults for watching this pile of utter crap, and for still respecting the Alien franchise and Ridley Scott as a director.