I’m seeing a decent amount of criticism aimed at all the callbacks to the other movies but I kinda liked it, I didn’t find it too bad. I thought the atmosphere, cinematography, feel, soundtrack was all top notch and the movie was genuinely scary at times. Effects were awesome outside of the CGI for Ian holm.
Thought the Offspring twist at the end was bat **** in a good way, creature design was great and genuinely upsetting, again in a good way haha. Like some ungodly hybrid of the Engineers from Prometheus, Slenderman, and Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne. It’s dope they cast some 7’7” Romanian basketball player to play the part lol.
Andy the android was awesome, dude basically plays two separate characters and kills it with both of them.
My main criticism of the film, and I get why others would dislike the movie over it, is that I genuinely didn’t give a crap about any of the characters outside of Rain and Andy. The movie had a 2 hour runtime, I think you could tack on like 10-15 minutes with better character development. Nothing crazy, but like add a few scenes, some conversations between them (before **** gets crazy) that add more color to the characters so they’re not just the chick that gets chest bursted or the British dude that gets killed by acid lol. Like give me a couple scenes at least of them talking, doing stuff that makes me think of them as semi interesting human beings rather than just fodder for the facehuggers and xenos.
Again it didn’t bother me a ton, but just something that kept it as an 8/10 for me rather than a 9+.
