Oh No! A Prometheus Sequel!

Rating: Null/10 (27 August 2017)

When I go see an Alien franchise sequel, especially when directed by Ridley Scott, I expect to see H.R. Geger's nightmarish alien from the first film.
No such luck — except for an un-scary cameo appearance.
It was nice to see some allusion to the flavor of the first Alien film in the sets. But as a story, the film is a boring, contrived, and convoluted sequel to the disastrous film, Prometheus.
Despite the infinite capabilities of CG to create a truly bizarre and arresting planetary landscape, the colonists are filmed walking through a forest that looks suspiciously Earthlike. I'd expect more from a nearly $100 million budget.
The original Alien remains a cinematic horror masterpiece that works even without all the CG effects of today. James Camron's sequel, Aliens, ratcheted up the terror. An Alien 3 film should have been about getting the evil species to the Corporation on Earth and having all hell break loose.
Instead, the franchise has mutated into confusing gobbledygook with some gratuitous blood and gore.
Why can't the Aliens series just be about the quest for evil xenomorphs that have value on Earth as a military weapon? Nice and simple. They don't need to be genetically engineered by some android with a God complex.
Also, spare me the confusing melodrama of embattled evil and benign androids, and some still mysterious ancient humanoid race of space-seeders.
I'm glad I streamed this cinematic disaster so I could fast forward through all the pretentious, dull dialogue.