Better than Promethius but that's not saying much.

Rating: 5/10 (1 September 2017)

In many ways this film rehashes a number of ideas and scenes from the first series of Alien films. However I was largely just reminded of how better these ideas and scenes were done in those original Alien films.
My main issue with this film is a common problem with blockbusters. I really don't understand how people can spend such vast amounts of money making a film and not want it to make sense. The excuse always given is that this is entertainment requiring the "willing suspension of disbelief". I always disliked that expression as it implies you have to believe anything. In fact the origin of the quote (from Coleridge) is "a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief". When a film lacks this "semblance of truth" then, for me, it shatters whatever reality the film is attempting to get you to buy in to. It was better than the utter nonsense of Promethius, however the humans are still unbelievably dumb, watching their crew mates get gruesomely massacred by hideous beasties but still insisting on wandering off by themselves to wash their face in rooms built from shadows.
For those Alien fans wanting to know more about the Engineers I'm afraid the only thing we find out is that they seem to be about as stupid as the humans.