Scott used to make films; now he makes trash

Rating: 1/10 (21 August 2017)

What a complete and total waste of my time. There are some flicks which are bad but are still worth watching again in leisure time because of some particularly good dialog, or scenery, or camera work, or music, or action scene, or whatever. This film is an exception even to that -- there's nothing here I want to bother seeing again.
The story is a rehash of everything we've already seen multiple times. It is at times dragging like an anchor and at times jumping through multiple hoops in a single leap. The characters are supposed to know each other well long before the story starts, but you can't see that from their interaction; just a false chumminess that stands in for any real connection established on screen. All of the predictably stupid things done by all the previous movie characters are done here. The multiple monster vectors are all over the place in this flick as in some previous Alien movies, so there's no consistency anywhere.
Same for the monsters attacking our heroes. At least you could predict what was going to happen in the first couple Alien films, but here there is no correlation between monster attacks and anything else. It's not a plot mechanism; it simply makes no sense.
Contrast that with the very predictable "surprises" contained in the story. Are you kidding me?!? This stuff is telegraphed miles away and is as clear as day long before any treachery is discovered. Oy. I know this isn't a murder mystery, but you'd at least expect some attempt to hide what was going to happen. Agatha Christie rolls over in her grave.
So, a rehash of everything that's come before. No new developments. No new scenery. No new lasting characters. No new cinematography. No new action scenes. Nothing new at all, and everything poorly presented.
What a bucket of puke.