It even fails as a stand-alone movie.

Rating: 1/10 (25 July 2017)

I am gonna start by saying that I have not watched the original 1979 movie "Alien" or its sequel "Aliens", I was introduced to the franchise by Prometheus, which I found to be a fairly good movie. I was a little excited to explore answers for the questions that were left unanswered in Prometheus. The beginning of the movie is promising, but then it derails almost immediately. The crew comprising of most the boring, generic, unsympathetic and idiotic characters, who are almost indistinguishable from one another, start dying in the most hilarious manners of their own faults. I cannot for one moment believe that the crew members were highly trained pros because they consistently behaved like moronic teenagers. And if all of this wasn't bad enough, the movie tries to introduce a twist at the end which I saw coming a mile away. I am not sure how I feel about David being the creator of the aliens, I actually don't get it at all. How and who was he experimenting on when all the race of engineers was wiped out by him? And the cherry on the top, the movie becomes a slasher pic in the third act. Since, I haven't watched the original movies, I tried to judge the movie solely on its merits, and it fails miserably. I hope to high heavens that we don't get another Alien prequel after this dumpster fire.