Belongs side the 3rd or 4th movie

Rating: 3/10 (8 June 2012)

How can the guy who created this be so far off...
You can actually tell within the first ten minutes that something just isn't working. The group of 17 are all sitting on folding chairs and you really could care less about any of them. In Aliens, the Marines are waking up and gearing up and you already care about the rough necks. Just shows James Cameron deserved the second Alien movie hands down. This movie shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath.
You have an actual discovery (ancient temple on new found planet) that looks like it is going to be cool then the whole thing falls off a cliff... be warned.
This place is so lethal that it take a robot slipping their discovery into someones drink? Really, they felt the need to erase any remnants of the original and couldn't even just go with the face hugger here? This was such amateur storytelling. It's hard to imagine the amount of money these guys made for coming up with THIS. So now you've got a guy that is contaminated (ok?) so they don't let him on the ship... point was... what here? Then some other guy who gets sprayed with acid ends up a crazed killer the likes of a guy on alien PCP. Again... okay... and the point was... what here? These were alien bioweapon engineers? Great plot. Why do a prequel when we could do that... great call.
So now you dream up a giant squid face hugger... again for what reason? So eventually you let them run into one of these alien human spawner's and 10 seconds into it he doesn't even attempt to communicate... takes a cop out and swats them all down. Brilliant story telling! Why attempt to go deep here. We'll just let everyone else's imagination do the busy work here. Of course you'd have to be invested in the movie at this point to really care... and you don't at this point. This great sacrifice to ram the ship is motivated by a single line that none of that stuff comes on my ship! This pay off is so weak that you feel they got off lucky by being done with their weak roles in this movie.
So then you bring two girls down to the surface... again... for what, to see them run? Or watch some bad girl get hers? It is so stupid because one of the two finally stops running straight as this building of a ship is falling on top of them and it turns out if you stop drop and roll - actually sideways two feet you'll be missed by the whole falling ship. But wait we are not done yet...
Let play an obvious re-shoot since this movie has nothing to do with prequel and they figured out recently that is actually what people were willing to go back to this worn out franchise for. So here we are once again remaking an alien that already worked but now they decided let's put a Muppet mouth on this tacked on one at the end and we'll be able to say we had an alien in the movie and yes he's new. This is Jim's territory... and I'm sure these are the times he just sits back and grins.
Yes... you had a lot of money to make this look good... that's about it. The actors did good with what little story they had to work with. This is one of the few times I actually feel sorry for them. I'm sure they thought they were in capable hands. Wow - what a shame this one was.
I don't have the heart to even go back and proof read this I'm so disappointed with this whole thing.