Ridley Scott ought to be ashamed

Rating: 5/10 (16 May 2017)

I read the first 4 reviews and see that everything has been said already. Apart from the amazing visual effects this is a terrible movie with a quite unbelievable and in my opinion childish plot. In fact it has so may inconsistencies one can hardly call it a plot. To take a few points: The automated operating theatre does not know how to operate on women even though the owner of the ship is in fact a woman, but manages to do a caesarian on Shaw. The foetus appears to be a smooth creature with a few tentacles, however she manages to escape the pod without the
very lively foetus following her and immobilise it after just undergoing a major operation! Presumably by doing something to the machine. However a short time later the creature has not only escaped but grown into a huge octopus powerful enough to strangle the very powerful alien; a little later another creature bursts out of the body of the dead alien, and guess what? It looks exactly like the 'alien' from the movie Alien. There are so many weird creatures/infections on screen but they seem to be unrelated. Surely the very advanced 'people' who visited earth could have killed off any dangerous life forms inhabiting their 'ship'. The 'snakes' also seem capable of easily smashing the helmet bubbles of the astronauts. There is also the signal of a life form on the scanner which disappears and is called just a 'glitch', surely so far in the future the technology would be so far advanced that 'glitches' would not occur. The 'alien ship' also seems to be part cave and part high tech space vehicle, capable of taking off after 2000 years of idleness! It also looks like a doughnut with a bite taken out of it. Finally I am getting tired of film makers showing huge spacious space vehicles, with vast halls and corridors. In this case a huge private space pod with a grand piano!! maybe that was supposed to be a joke. Do they not know anything about space travel in which interior space would be at a premium?