This Alien is the anscestor of Jar Jar Binks

Rating: 1/10 (16 June 2017)

I simply adore Aliens 1 to 4 without any reservation. Each & every of them. They were the Ellen Louise Ripley coherent lifestory well told in four installments (as I think).
I am extremely sorry for Ridley Scott making this mess. My Gawd, he made the 1st part, the masterpiece of all times... I hope this time just the money was enough for him. Artistically it is a doozy.
From my point of view, you cannot have a PREQUEL of an Alien AT ALL because it kills the remnants of the feeling of mystery and awe. "There is no Universe - it's all just your backyard full of junk and garbage".
Let me confess now - The Alien is NOT the story of the unstoppable xenomorph. It is the story of a human woman trying stop it against all odds. The story of a woman, who loves her cat, who's ready to adopt a traumatized child, who feels connection to a robot when she'd lost everyone else, who fights on even from the grave. That IS the adversity, that IS the story.
I tried to find the next Ripley in this Ridley movie & I failed. ========= By the local rules, "You may edit your previous review, or you may delete it and submit a new one". I cannot put a 2nd. So, addendum.
We (Hollywood in this case & time) have an amazing lack of ideas.
I refuse to add\detract a quality star for SGI or 3D or "scenery". It does NOT matter, Jaisus... A story then. I feel I could have generated dozens of sub-par stories like this without rubbing 2 gray cells together.

An Alien-infested ship reaches a galaxy far-far away & becomes an emperor. After 10 movies & sequels the Jedi knights show-ow-ow the supremacy of the Force. - An Alien is thrown to the past and morphs with Biff Tannen. Etc. - An Alien lands on Abydos or goes to Andromeda. We have a Alien\Goa'uld\Wraith hybrid & SG-1 kills it after long & boring - An Alien vs Iron Man\Arrow\Sherlock Holmes\Superman\Batman\ any other man or Grimm\ Michael Westen (Burn Notice) \ John Reese-Harold Finch (Person of Interest), or Buffy or ANY OTHER storyline, who cares...

Ridley could have installed "The Movies" PC game moviemaker & have produced a better thing with a machinima for a dollar.
The rule is: we take one financially successful thing add any other financially successful thing - and we have a double profit! Except we don't.
And that's the problem.