It was maybe 60-70% of a good movie. I thought that it did some good things... but on balance, it was basically a hot mess. I am seeing a lot of strong reviews saying that it was the best Alien film since Aliens. No. Not even close.
I thought the premise and start was strong. But about 2/3s of the way through it just descended into WAY too much fan service until by the end it was just a jammed together mishmash of all of the other movies put together. Therein lies the problem: not all of the previous movies were good. Some, in fact, were a mess.
That said, I like Alien, I love Aliens, Alien 3 is bad, Alien Resurrection is also bad (possibly worse), Promethius and Covenant I think are both underrated and quite good. I know a lot of people did not like Promethius and Covenant for reasons that I never understood. Yes, it took the franchise in a bit of a different direction. But I thought that it was a direction that was pretty interesting. So I suppose that for the people that like Resurrection and did not like Promethius or Covenant, maybe this film is for you.
Then again, they did borrow some parts of both Promethius and even Covenant. The problem is, it didn't work.
I am annoyed. The only saving grace is that the theatre had M-43 on tap.
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