pfffft!

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2017)

I hate horror movies where the characters are stupid. I am almost glad when they get killed. There are lots of stupid characters in this film. Maybe that's why they killed off the captain at the beginning. You can't have a stupid captain; but every time the captain gets killed and the next man or woman assumes the position they get stupid real quick.
The visuals are stunning. The space scenes are what we have come to expect from space scenes if you believe in space; but the landing craft that they use to descend to the planet are comically not aerodynamic. The writers could have solved this problem by claiming that anti-gravity was perfected since the last movie.
The most puzzling thing is the creature. Some times it resembles the original monster and other times it resembles a creature that walks about on two legs. Some times you can kill it with bullets and some times it is bullet proof. Sometimes the creature is introspective and other times it is it's usual bloodthirsty self. Some times you feel like a nut; some times you don't? There were some brief flashbacks of when David the android arrives at the planet after having escaped with Shaw in Prometheus. On the way he has re-engineered the virus and killed Shaw. That would have been a better movie. Shaw was a better protagonist--almost as good as Ripley--not real cute; but sexy. The female lead in this incarnation is just not cute. You feel as though if she were a little cuter that maybe the captain would have taken her advice and not checked out the planet. On second thought if he had there would not have been a movie.