Is this HORROR?

Rating: 6/10 (12 August 2017)

The new movie in the "Alien" franchise was met with high expectations and much anticipation, and, maybe due to too high expectations, the film was disappointing and veers off the wrong turn of the horror genre: exiting the scary and entering the gory.
The film was overly violent, with too much gore, and too many reveals of the highly loved Xenomorph. Throughout the movie, we witness the evolution of the Xenomorph (more commonly known as the Neomorph in this film). But, as this is a prequel to the famous "Alien", the Xenomorph seems to be over-developed and more powerful than its later version. With new designs for the beloved Chest-Burster, it seems the film desires to be showy instead of story. Plus, the film is a repetition of the previous ones before it. It follows the classic and cliché pattern of:
A distress call/ Call to action, forces a random spaceship (with a mentally strong female) to land. Followed by the crew exploring, with mysterious deaths. Then, someone betrays the crew for safety or a personal goal. Finally, we witness the Xenomorph, and the crew must somehow stop it.
They are all quite similar story lines, with minor tweaks in the middle. It wasn't the WORST "Alien" I am yet to witness, just not as good as the previous movies, including the highly critiqued Prometheus". If you are looking for horror, do not go to this film, go the 1979 version.