WTF happened to Ridley Scott

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2017)

I was pretty excited to see this movie until I saw the trailer. I saw a Xenomorph in plain daylight head-banging a glass. Since that moment I knew this was f*cked.
I liked "Prometheus" and was really intrigued by the questions it asked. But I admit I am much more of a fan of "Alien" and "Aliens". Still I would have been happy if I got a Prometheus or an Alien movie, what I don't like is that they mixed that sh*t together and created this mess.
I am going to divide this review in three parts: Act 1, Act 2 and Act 3. Because the different acts of this film are completely different and look like they were written by different people.
Some general observations before I go any further is that the direction and color grading are really great. The actors also give a good enough performance.
On the negative side, the special effects are sh*t.
Act 1: So the movie starts with a scene with David and Weyland. This scene is very good and provides some really good things to think about. I have no problems with this part.
Then it cuts to Walter who is in charge of running a space ship that is carrying colonists to another planet. Something happens and they have to wake the real crew up from their sleep.
Some things happen and they decide to land on a closer planet that looks better than the one they are supposed to land on. The movie is doing OK and I have no problems with it so far.
So they land on the planet and some sh*t gets into the crews' nose and ears and a "Neomorph" starts growing in them. At the same time they find the space ship from "Prometheus".
Now in this part of the film things start going south because again the characters make some stupid choices. But it does lead to the best scene in the movie with a "Neomorph" growing out of someone's back. That scene is completely ruined of course because the alien creature is CGI and it looks terrible.
Over all, the first act was OK. It had some problems but nothing too bad.
Act 2 This is when it starts getting bad. David rescues the crew from the Neomorphs and takes them to his home were he has been hiding since he landed here. This bothers me a lot because what could have been a great Prometheus sequel turns into David just saying what happened in a brief explanation scene.
The characters are again stupid in this scene and make some very weird choices that get them killed. Also, we get to see the Neomorph completely which makes it look not scary.
This is also when David starts explaining us how the "Xenomorph" came to be. This is one of my greatest dislikes about the film. It answers questions we don't want the answer to and it doesn't answer the questions we do want. We don't want to know how the Xenomorph came to be. The explanation in the first movie was just fine. It was a perfect killing machine that was more pure than humans. That is all that we needed to know, if we now a lot about it then it really stops being scary.
After that David and Walter have some WTF scenes and David turns evil. He kills Walter but then mysteriously Walter is back alive. Then they have a ridiculous fight scene that made me laugh.
This part of the movie has a lot of plot holes. Some things happened that break the story-line from Prometheus and the first Alien movie.
The only thing I enjoyed about this act was David's way of thought. Not his exposition about the Xenomorphs, his way of thought, what motivates him to do what he is doing.
Act 3: Act 3 is basically an Alien movie, a really sh*tty one. Ridley Scott shows the Xenomorph in plain sight. That was what made the alien scary in the first one! You only saw small parts of it, and he was hiding all of the time. The Xenomorph is smart, its not an animal. Even in the "Alien Isolation" games where you can see the Xenomorph completely you get scared because of its smartness. This movie didn't create any tension or tried to make the Alien creepy at all. There was only good scene in this act, a shower scene to be exact. The rest is sh*t.
My final conclusion is: Don't watch this movie. I gave it a 5/10 because Ridley Scott deserves some credit for the shots and some things were cool. But I was tremendously disappointed by this film.