An amazing movie, but not a good Alien movie

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2020)

Don't get me wrong, this film is great, but one thing I didn't like is how scaled-down the aliens' strength is. It might just be because I played Alien Isolation, and watched the first movie, but one thing that was important in both was how strong each alien is. In Alien Isolation (which is canon), an entire space station gets run down by a drone that couldn't have been much more than a week old. In the first movie, the entire crew of the Nostromo is slaughtered by a drone that was only a few days old, and yet in this movie, the fully grown Xenomorphs get mowed down en masse just because the protagonists have bigger guns? No, I don't think it works like that, not to mention the Xenomorphs were fighting head-on when it's already been established that they are at their best when hunting stealthily. Now again, this isn't a bad film. The cinematography is fantastic, as are the special effects (The Queen is just gorgeous). The acting was great for the most part, as always I loved Sigourney's performance (Although the little girl's line delivery was questionable). While I don't like it as an Alien movie, as a movie on its own it's still an absolute masterpiece, and definitely deserves a watch.