Alien 1...in HD.

Rating: 5/10 (21 September 2017)

I liked Prometheus. Really. I was surprised to hear bad reviews about it. I thought it was a nice chance for the creator or the franchise to shed some light into the past of it all, since he (and so many people) hated Alien vs Predator.
So I was waiting for this new Alien movie, I was very anxious. I avoided looking at anything that mentioned it on the web. I wanted to be surprised. And I was. Still am. I mean, where's the story?
We were promised to be able to see Dr. Shaw's travel to the planet of the "engineers", how they would talk, what she would learn, what she would tell them about us and their failed experiment. But no. It's Alien 1 all over again.
And, forgive me, but is it me or isn't there always a chubby guy with weird mustache and beard and a cowboy hat around? Are they like, part of a clan? A very long bloodline?
Magneto...I mean, David, for some reason, came to hate humans. Just like that. To the point that he actually killed Dr.Shaw and experimented on her...in horrible ways. He advanced the engineer's biological weapon. But he still went to their planet, arrived there with no problem. And launched the weapon on them. Something else I found weird is that the entire planet's population was assembled in a very short space, like a "city park" or something. There couldn't be more than, what? 10 thousand of them there. They died at the spot. Oh, and they were all wearing rags, like something from Kayne West's latest clothing line.
So, OK, we get crazy-David, who faces his new-generation brother and kills him. The ship's crew all die in that "Alien-way". And we get the politically correct interracial naked couple in the shower. They die too, of course. Crazy David goes on, killing everyone because, you know "whatever", and tries to experiment on them. He hates humans, and all his efforts aim to destroy us (Well, hello, Mr. Magneto.). At the end, there's that super-suspense scene where we go like "Is it David? Is it Walter?" Nah, it's David, guys! We're all going to die! He takes control of the ship and puts his little alien babies with the human embryos. I don't know what for, but he made those, so I suppose he knows best.
Yeah, the promises made at the end of Prometheus? Forget those. A decent reason for this new chain of events? Nope. The answers and story we were waiting for? Nah. A remake of 1979's Alien? Sure, with no plot at all? Sure, why not?
At least it's better than that Life (2017) piece of trash.