An Alien film without the Alien

Rating: 4/10 (11 October 2018)

This one tanked at the box office, and it deserved to. The script rips off Alien so much it's a wonder it didn't end in a law suit.
A good cast are pretty much all at sea here. Sam Neill is woefully miscast, Sean Pertwee and Jason Isaacs spend most of the film lighting up cigarettes, as if they had a tobacco sponsorship deal! Laurence Fishburne is better, but the characters are mainly 1-dimensional and uninteresting.
There are some nice visuals, and the opening 20 minutes or so are quite well done. But as the film unwinds it just gets sillier and sillier; you might laugh rather than gasp in horror. I certainly did.