A beautiful, yet terrible movie

Rating: 5/10 (30 May 2017)

I'm an Alien fan to my core, I love all the movies and even tolerate Resurrection. I was so let down by this movie I had to get consolation ice cream. I will say Visually this movie is stunning and has some great special effects moments. This had huge potential and all of that was squandered to basically make some poor version of a psychological slasher/horror. If you've seen the movie then.... the shower scene... ugh.
I'm not sure why a crew of over 2000 people was guarded by a skeleton crew in hyper-sleep and one android. Also, why would you push forward into the area where a solar explosion just killed a crew member and some colonists. Then just randomly go to a nearby planet that seems better only to send down basically the entire crew without space suits or protection and just send them out? So if the whole crew is compromised goodbye colonists? The plot is so twisted and makes no sense, also great job shitting on Shaw's character and making that story line pointless other than a useless vessel to get David to this planet and have him make crazy biological advancements in a cave with a flute that he can play without lungs. WTF IS HAPPENING! Why did the captain stare into the Alien egg, why did the alien stand up like baby Groot? All these questions and more will never be answered because this movie sucks.
This movie has a few cool scenes but it's a travesty and really disheartening addition to the franchise.