Film student reshoots scenes from previous Alien movies to make bad Homage

Rating: 5/10 (7 July 2017)

I was deeply disappointed, almost from the beginning of the film. It was so damn slow. This is a horror movie, and as such you would expect some sort of tension to mount, which doesn't.
Another reviewer did a great job of listing the ridiculousness of each characters poor decisions made throughout this film, so I won't redo that. It's enough to say these decisions were so far from plausible that I totally divorced myself from the premise of the film by the midway mark.
The characters were so forgettable. No charisma, no special characteristics, nothing to make them stand out as either spectacularly smart or stupid. It was as though casting were asked for grey people so the director could manipulate them into the character he wanted. Stuff like this is only forgivable from a first time director feeling his way.
Overall the film felt like a committee effort. A bunch of film students asked to retell the original trilogy. And the disjointed result with its poor CGI (Oh God the exploding lander was soooo 80's era), zero suspense and choppy post-production would have been explainable.
Very sad day for the Alien franchise.