Entertaining but not great.

Rating: 5/10 (24 July 2017)

It is proving nigh on impossible to capture the original horrific emptiness and isolation of the original Alien and the Gung-Ho, space marine action of it's sequel.
This film, and it's predecessor feel like an extension of the Alien universe but only in the same way as Alien vs Predator managed.
Patchy and poorly conceived with no wonderment at the breathtaking discovery of a vast, technologically superior alien race (The Engineers). It would appear that Mr Scott has become too godlike to be edited and coached into providing us with a coherent story.
A shame.