Ridley Scot's directing license should be revoked

Rating: 2/10 (19 May 2017)

In hindsight, the monumental failure that is this movie should've been obvious, after the "Prometheus" fiasco. But movie fans are flawed, they do tend to have hope, in this case very unjustified. All the money thrown in this movie for sets and VFX are ultimately dwarfed by the colossal idiocy of the script. None of criticisms towards "Prometheus" were taken into account here. Not a single character was likable. All of them acted like complete morons. The first thing they do when they land on an unknown planet is to jump in the mud and start making mud angels, metaphorically speaking. No suits, no any preliminary analysis, no reconnaissance of any sort. Life on another planet doesn't surprise them at all. Alien civilization on another planet doesn't amaze them even in the slightest. A huge alien spaceship - nothing interesting here. A dog tag from another human being, hmm weird but still not interesting enough. Move along. It's more fun to poke the local unstudied flora with their unprotected face pressed right against it. When someone starts bleeding from all orifices it's best to lead them straight in the ship, what could go wrong. Sure, lock your crew-mate in the room with the spiked zombie. Sure, slip on the bloody floor like in a Marx brothers comedy, twice. Sure, fire at will in the room with the flammable exploding materials. Sure, spread around and stay alone in the creepy temple with no windows and easily climbable walls. It is mind-boggling how stupid these people were. At some point your just start to wonder if anyone will make any sane and logical decision. What the hell happened to mankind in the future - they all have become retards. But the idiocy is not limited to humans. The race of the engineers is wiped in seconds after they gleefully all gather around on a neat giant square to greet the arrival of one of their biological warfare ships with non-responding crew. For creatures that were so susceptible to death from the virus they created, they had a pretty nonchalant attitude towards bio-hazard protocols. To top all the cringe-worthy scenario, this movie had an extremely disappointing ending. People in my cinema were literally cursing and throwing bottles with water around. In conclusion - avoid this nihilistic and misanthropic abomination at any cost. It will only make you angry. The Alien franchise is beyond hope of salvation.