Missed Opportunities and lacking ideas

Rating: 6/10 (20 July 2014)

Nice setting, the possibility to create something new and some good ideas (& many special effects) ... but the result is still mediocre.
Some good performances of the actors and some (really only some) good ideas do not make a great film. This film has to much flaws to be great. The idea with the constructors and the whole story has some chances for a good storyline and to create a real new facet of the whole Alien universe. But the results are not convincing. The storyline does not differ enough from the Alien stuff to be real original and the scripting of the film is unoriginal and to predictable. For example: Everybody knows, what will happen, when the meeting with the last constructor is going to be. Nothing new, nothing original. Also when the meeting with some of the creatures are, everybody knows in advance, what happens. The only thing that was mildly unexpected, is the real stupid behavior of the people.
And that the film contains tons of totally unbelievable things, others already mentioned.
Finally, the whole plot has the odor of just being a vehicle for one or two sequels and that odor is not smelling to good in the nostrils of the viewers.
At least, they should have taken the chance to invent new interesting creatures, but even that they did not manage, instead the new creatures are transfer pictures of the Alien universe creatures, so that one asks, is this an error, or should this be a new creature? Again, no real new ideas.