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Sorry, this movie sucks

i must have seen a different film!!

best movie i've ever seen.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Humanity has not come anywhere. This is just a pathetic attempt to destroy a classic.

We thought the problem with Alien sequels was the lack of Ridley Scott's involvement? Those were the days. Prometheus may have been ponderous and pretentious, but at least there was something there to think about. This film is like a really bad remake of Aliens--all out war with a fetal/adolescent/grown up version of the beasties, but without Cameron's sense of pacing or the deft characterizations, or Ripley's kickass Mama a Mama battle with the queen bitch. Given the extremely short time frames between prequels and the original series, there's no good explanation--other than asses in the seats novelty--for the constant morphing of the creatures, and these new aborted fetuses with fangs are the worse thing since that other human/alien hybrid at the end of the last Alien sequel. Hairless and without a developed exoskeleton they seem strangely resistant to heavy caliber, automatic weapons. This movie wastes thirty-five minutes getting to any sense of tension and yet, in all that time, fails to develop any significant sense of character or conflict. We just wait for the beasties to arrive and the slaughter to begin. If an unimaginative gorefest with creatures you've seen a hundred times is your idea of a good time, this is your flick. Otherwise, not so much. Ridley, whose BR 2049 was similarly structured like a wet noodle, a once great filmmaker, has simply forgotten how to create genuine narrative tension. It reminds me of Lucas in the second trilogy, though Scott has fallen farther, since some of Lucas's flaws were there to be seen all along.

I didn't read the reviews before watching the movie but I did not have high expectation. Still, I was disappointed. Scott said he wants to turn this into a franchise and leave the story open, which means it's possible they will not close down the story and end up to where Alien started. And what that means is that they just want to take people to the cinema to make money and deliver mediocre films.Back to this film, where should I start? It has nothing original, nothing thrilling, nothing spectacular to remember. Instead, it reiterates all the SF cliches (the following is a SPOILER list): big colony ship heading to a distant planetthe crew and other colonists are in a cryogenic sleepan unexpected event wakes them upsome of them die in the eventthey find a planet that looks good and everybody is confidentthey get killed because they are recklesscommunication between teams is brokenpeople are forcibly quarantine along with infested colleagues and diehumans cannot kill the parasite; only the parasite can kill peoplethe bad guy outsmarts everybodyeverybody dies except or a handful that are saved the last momentand so on and so forthThis movie did not answer any questions (how could it be since Scott wants to make at least two more movies) but instead only raised more. It looked like it had almost nothing to do with Prometheus, except for David. It's just a side story in the big picture. We're gonna have more Davids/Walters and more ships in the future. For as long as it still makes some money. For God's sake, HTF did David breed the aliens? Seriously? Oh, and let me guess, there will be some engineers that escaped because they were away (of course, on their planet everybody lives in a single small place, not spread across the entire planet surface). And they will show up in the next film to take some revenge.

When Elizabeth Shaw and David blasted off into space at the end of Prometheus, I was excited to see her next adventure. What we got was NOT this adventure. I loved Noomi Rapace in this movie and to kill off the next possible, iconic female lead in the next step of the franchise was just, well, lame! The Aliens we know don't float as particles and up peoples noses. They get laid in the throat by a facehugger! To be honest, these crazy ideas to create different aliens just makes things too complicated! And the fact that our dear aliens were created by some crazy droid is just........stupid! So, aliens evolved from humans! What was Ridley Scott thinking? You've beyond damaged your franchise and brought nothing new here. Was so disappointed.