Disappointing but tied up the prometheus story line

Rating: 4/10 (8 August 2017)

Having watched the alien series since it began there was an expectation of a fresh feel from the trailers but it was disappointing film over all. The first part of the film was good, it got you in the mood for something great BUT then the characters awake from sleep mode and what you got where a bunch of "B" and "C" rated actors that acted more like from the local community theater. You have a bunch of soldiers that behave like your local wanna be heroes. The crew are not experienced in any shape or form, they behave like scared kids, making it hard to grasp that anyone would let these amateurs lead a colony of 2000 people. The whole thing starts to fall apart when they land on the planet, so many rookie errors and mistakes, from walking around on a planet they know very little about without protective suites, soldiers who have no clue on what to do when attacked, list goes on. It did honestly feel like they let an amateur director make this part of the film, the only thing that saved it was the fact it had a healthy budget behind it and Michael Fassbender acting. The story line of any worth picks up mid-way through the end of the film and is saved by Michael Fassbender acting. It also closes the holes in the Prometheus story line and what happened when they went looking for the creators and how the alien came to be and then you are left to work out how the rest of the franchise came to be, so unless you have followed the alien franchise over the many years and if you are of a younger generation you will struggle with the ending. To be honest if you just watch the start of the film, bit in the middle and the ending you will have got the story, probably all done in about 40 mins, rather than sit through nearly 2 hours of watching poor acting and a film with so many holes and school boy mistake that you make you want to scream in to the pillow shouting why oh why!