Alien Prequel

Rating: 7/10 (16 March 2020)

Yeah it should have had a title like that, because at the end that is what it revealed.
It was a similar film to the first Alien film anyway, Ridley Scott directed both and it has his stamp on this. A spaceship lands on a planet where mysterious aliens might be and a horror then ensues. Also it has a robot/android involved at the same level in both, and there is one strong female survivor, another thing in common is that the alien impregnates her. even some of the other characters are similar to the characters from Alien, it even has a storm not long after they landed. Seen it all before in 1979!
But on its own its not a bad film, the special effects are very good, as is the other world landscapes and structures, the direction is good, good scenes, music ok, well paced, the horror is horrible, the acting is ok, not great. and that's it really, its good but not great. It does not have the edge of your seat effect like Alien did, and its all a bit..... well.....average.
And then there's the end, it could have been made a bit subtler, but it wasn't it was blatantly showing that this was the prequel to Alien, and that sort of spoilt it a bit.
Normally I would be against this sort of thing, but (even if I don't believe I am writing this) if the scene showing Idris Elba porkin' Charlize Theron was included it might have picked it up a bit, uuughhh, said it, I'll regret it later!
But I still give it a 7, mostly because of the other worldly scenes and special effects.