Yes, Yes, Yes...Nooooooo!

Rating: 5/10 (30 March 2017)

Hell yes I'm in for a movie inspired by Alien and with a great cast!
Aw, crap. Here we go again.
I'm not gonna say I want my money back, but I AM incensed enough to write an opinion about it.
It's a waste of time to write about how implausible the actions of the alien were, like some of the other reviewers have done. It's an ALIEN - who knows what in the hell those little bastards could ever get up to? I'm old enough and seen enough movies to know how to SUSPEND BELIEF. My issue is that this movie didn't bring anything new to the table and was actually pretty predictable.
I'm OK with movies that are "inspired" by others. There's rarely such a thing as an original idea anyway, right? And Alien is one of the greatest movies ever to be inspired by. But to sell this movie as "Alien inspired" while having no other correlation than an alien on board your spaceship is quite the let down.
The interesting thing about Alien was that it's hero was a female. For that time period, outside of a few Grindhouse selections, a female heroine was pretty avant-garde in a main-stream action movie. No one, at the beginning of Alien, guessed Ripley would have been the lone survivor at the end. Life doesn't really explore new ground, other than the whole, "Be careful what you wish for, scientists!" Although this is timely, considering our burgeoning hostile take-over of Mars, is it really a new idea? Seems like the last time I saw this explored was in a similar mediocre sci-fi called Splice.
As I write this, I'm questioning why I am even bothering to post a review when rating a movie 5/10. But then I remember why I felt so upset when leaving the film - that ending...I would say there was more inspiration from Tim Burton's The Planet of the Apes than with Alien. And that's REALLY the biggest let down.