A great sci-fi movie. Bravo Ridley Scott

Rating: 8/10 (5 May 2020)

Man oh man... Ridley Scott sure can make some good bloody movies! Gladiator, Hannibal, Matchstick Men, American Gangster... the hits just keep on coming!
You don't even need to have watched any of the previous Aliens movies in order to appreciate this movie, but it helps. There's certain scenes where your mouth is agape (those where references to Aliens are discovered), but only if you've watched the previous movies.
The movie has very little action, but the action scenes are highly condensed and pretty much the entire final 25% of the movie is action packed. I think that the characters in the movie act irrationally and unrealistically in certain scenes, but it's nothing too gratuitous, or else I would have deducted more stars. I know it's difficult to make the characters in a film make rational and realistic decisions (since then the film would be over a lot quicker), but honestly, often times it's not that difficult at all.
Overall it's a good movie, and a very good sci-fi movie. Looking forward to the next one from Ridley.