Just sad

Rating: 2/10 (5 September 2017)

Wanted to like this movie, but just couldn't. Scott is a great director, but the script was beyond bad, it was illogical.
Why would you spend billions on a colonization mission and send this group? You could have randomly picked a more suitable team of the street! Training is mentioned in the film, but what training, they didn't even to wear protective gear outside the ship on a total unknown world! NASA would have kittens.
The technology was beyond dumb. Deploying a solar sail to power up a starship would be like using a couple of flints to start a nuclear reaction, pointless, the energy requirements for interstellar travel are vast. Why would a multibillion dollar colony ship come with only one lander? What if it fails or is damaged on the first landing, what are the rest of the colonialists meant to do,just just turn around and go home? As for the weaponry, well nice to see the M16 is still top of the line in 22nd century.
As for the rest of the plot, it would have shamed a 1930's pulp fiction writer.
Their is a wealth of science fiction stories that would make amazing movies. From CJ Cherry Company War's to Blindfire, a very scary and supremely intelligent look at first contact, any of these would be worthy of Ripley Scotts talents.