Watchable but not great...

Rating: 5/10 (3 June 2017)

I finally saw it. Not sure, how I feel about it. Very mixed feelings. The ending was very predictable and the movie doesn't even try to give you something unexpected, original. Instead it spells out the ending before it arrives and takes the form of the worse movie cliché where every one dies last minute and something shitty happens...It was a slap in the face that scene where they are fighting and the android takes up the knife...and it cuts away and you know exactly how it will end, with like 10 minutes of movie left.
(Also, seriously, they sucked it out to space, again?)
The movie drags in dialogues that don't add any meaning or depth to the story, the character's background stories add nothing to the end of the film. The characters are killed off and so there is no real character evolution. There are random mentions of religion and very light philosophical conversations that ultimately lead no where and say nothing..The film has no clear message, there's no real meat with your potatoes...
It starts to pretend like it's about to have substance but then you look back and there's just nothing... (Something about faith, something about God, something something...ah, hell this movie is aimless, what's the meaning of it all!?)
The film is about a psychotic android who some how grows a God complex. This storyline remains very undeveloped and the characters are mostly irrelevant. to the actual story The audience is simply expected to go along with it, that an android develops a god complex and likes to partake in sadistic Dr. Frankenstein like experiments because his "father" was a meanie...
The entire cast is just sort of filler, with wasted character development that has no real significance or importance to the story...and hey, they are all going to die anyways.
It's more like a continuation of Prometheus than anything else, disguised as a sequel with new characters.... Both films are the story of a psychotic android and his triumph.
All and all both this film and Prometheus were un-necessary prequels. The film spends a lot of time on nothingness, and in the end, the film provides a mostly empty experience. It was un-necessary, as we already gathered how Aliens came to be through Prometheus. We didn't really need a rehash of a sequel to spell it out for us even further.
Prometheus already gave us an origins story. Let's not even mention the incredibly stupid and irresponsible decisions the entire cast of characters made in the film. There's nothing to really take away from this or remember from this movie, a crazy android develops a god complex and preforms terrible experiments...