Alien Remix

Rating: 6/10 (2 June 2012)

This film feels more like the product of a Ridley Scott brainstorming session rather than a fully realised story - take some Alien, some philosophic sci-fi and some mythic tropes, then reheat with great actors and production design. It doesn't really work as a story, although its solid enough and there's plenty of interesting ideas with Fassbender's robot and the thankfully still mysterious origins of the alien (for instance that prologue); it reminds you why Ridley Scott has been such a great sci-fi filmmaker.
So, more intelligent than you can rightly expect from an alien film at this point, but I can't help feeling that it would have been stronger if they'd abandoned the connections with the earlier film altogether.