Makes "Plan 9 From Outer Space" Look Like "2001" Or "Blade Runner"

Rating: 1/10 (23 July 2018)

Against my better judgement, I watched this cinematic train wreck on cable TV last night. Ouch!
For one thing, there's very little material that's original. It has ancient astronauts ("Stargate"), contamination by alien lifeforms ("Andromeda Strain"), hostile extra-terrestrials ("The Thing From Another World"), an expedition gone wrong ("Aliens"), squabbling crew members ("Alien"), giant spaceships that crash spectacularly ("Independence Day"), and a mysterious benefactor ("Contact").
Worse yet, the plot is a complete mess and the characters poorly written, and I stopped caring about this movie around the mid-point. It relies too heavily on fancy computer graphics but a story, one which actually made sense, was, somehow, missing.
The only reason I continued watching it (while I happened to be doing something else at the time) was to say that I saw it to the end. I would have switched it off after, say, half an hour, but, then, I wouldn't have seen how terrible a movie this was.
The greatest disappointment about this is that it was directed by Ridley Scott, someone who made good movies at one time (e. g., "Blade Runner" and "Blackhawk Down"). I thought his "Robin Hood", made just a few years earlier, was a clunker, but this flick is worse than either of those.
If you like good science fiction, give this disaster a wide berth. There are lots of better SF films out there, some of which I mentioned earlier, that are better and more entertaining.