Munchies

Rating: 4/10 (28 August 2017)

I am a past Alien fan, but this version seemed too stuck in the past as if the writer/director couldn't be creative. It was a redux - just redundant, nothing new. 1. An almost mid to late 20th century storytelling of alien surviving on a planet by eating living hosts. Yet massive amounts of weapon fire seem to not damage it in any way (except in one case which didn't make any sense). 2. The usual range of not believable characters (an interstellar voyage should have a well trained/stable elite crew). Lots of stupid decisions not appropriate for such a mission. 3. A space ship made of massive amounts of heavy steel (even 20th century style heavy ship chains to hold cargo) with lots of extraneous structural components everywhere, both interior & exterior, to add weight with no function. Increased complexity leads to more opportunities to break; weight is out of this world costly. Looks impressive though. 4. A giant, cloud covered planet, and our space traveling crew just happens to land on the one spot on the planet where alien craft is located