Only H.R. Giger himself might have been able to save this one

Rating: 4/10 (9 March 2018)

Only H.R. Giger himself might have been able to save The Alien franchise following this mess. Alas, H.R. Giger is not with us anymore. Maybe to his benefit, as I'm not sure this latest (possibly last?) installment wouldn't have given him a stroke.
Look, as a Sci-Fi movie it wasn't that bad. Cinematography is great (one of, maybe the only remaining, Ridley Scott fief), CGI is not bad, acting is decent (thumbs up for Fassbender). If you're completely unfamiliar with the Alien movies then this could've been a 6 / 10 movie, maybe. Yeah, there are a lot of implausible decisions made by a bunch of unlikely idiotic team members and leaders. But, okay, disengaging the brain during that part of the movie might have helped. Make it a SyFy channel movie and call it a night. No harm done.
But the thing is...this movie is an Alien movie wannabe. As an Alien movie wannabe, a prequel no less, we're pushed, shoved actually, in the most unexpectedly idiotic direction. Namely, the android. Yes, those tangential, incidental, anecdotal androids that seeped into many of the Alien movies, barely noticeable. Yes, one of the them is, apparently, the crux of all that has been happening. The root of all evil. One of those is the focus and cause of our own struggle for survival, as a race, it turns out. I wonder if Ridley Scott is now aiming to combine Alien and Blade Runner into one. Why stop there, even? We could have Jar Jar Binks killing Aliens. With sheer boredom. After all, anything becomes passable with proper amount of alcohol.
Bottom line: "Alien vs. Predator" has more claim to be an "Alien" movie than this one. On the other hand, if watched in isolation of the Alien movie franchise then this could be enjoyable.