Exceeded my expectations by 20 times!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2017)

I get it, it doesn't belong to the original Alien series, yet forms most of its basal concepts on 'Alien' (1979), a lot of its scenes almost mimic the trapped-in-space troubles shown in that, but all of that goes out of the window once you start watching this film. It has its own feet and legs to stand on, its own horror to scare you and is special in its own ways. From one scene to the next, from one trouble to the next, it engages you so successfully that if you'd any predetermined thoughts of comparing it to the Alien series, you gradually forget all of that. The way it kills the rat and its first victim was a jaw-dropping start to the game, visuals that'll stay in my memory for some time, and from then on it just takes off.
I saw someone over here complain that the difference between the scientists of this film and 'Alien' (1979) was that these were shown to be highly incapable bunch of guys who're making one mistake after another. Whereas I don't dispute that observation, but I don't mind that. Thinking from a realistic point of view, irrespective of how capable you're, anyone would goof up things dealing with a creature like Calvin, a monster with abilities beyond their expectations and calculations. So that can happen, it's human.
And as it is anyway, a point that makes it different from the Alien series, this film shows the alien as having succeeded in the battle, as opposed to the others showing that there's always at least one human who kills it and survives to tell the tail - not something that I think is an any lesser concept than this. So the mistakes by the crew are justified by the note that it ends on.
The end-plan being goofed up totally is exactly what this film stands on, something that makes me give it 10 out 10 for its originality in that regard, and it ends on a tragic note. With the last 20 minutes approaching I'd that look on my face of having seen it all before, but then it surprises you with a brilliant ending. So, extremely sharp work by the film-makers. I was literally like "wow" when they showed the wrong capsule having landed in the water. I loved it!
I hope they make a sequel of this, because it's been always a fantasy of mine to see a film that shows the aliens on earth, as opposed to just in the space or on other planets. If they don't, well, I'll be bitterly disappointed. But I can still where this is coming from, because if I were myself a film-maker I'd be a specialty of mine too to end films on a tragic and unfinished note, because such an ending makes the film stay stronger in the viewers' memories.
All in all, an intensifying cinematic experience of my life that I 'll cherish for some time. Eagerly waiting for the next film from the other Alien series this May!