Reviews

I anticipated the release of this movie for a long time. I really enjoyed Alien and Aliens and was looking forward to his one by Ridley Scott, who directed one of my favorite movies Blade Runner. With that being said i must way I hated this film for so many reason I needs to use bullet point but won't.

SPOILERS: THE film starts out good enough, interesting landscapes, great picture quality, and a great performance by Fassbender (droid) alone on the ship for two years learning about various civilizations. The movie starts to go go downhill within 10 minutes unfortunately.

The most annoying aspect of the film is the behavior of the characters. The droid has malicious intent unlike in previous franchise films, and poisons someone just to see what happens. Half of the crew are not introduced, and the half that are are limited to only speaking a couple of lines.

Once inside the alien vessel/structure all of a sudden it is OK to take off your helmets in a strange new world. The android is all of a sudden an expert in how to open doors and use their weird control pads. LETS BRING NO WEAPONS OF ANY KIND TO THIS STRANGE ALIEN STRUCTURE. Holograms from the eighties just pop up of giant guys running for their lives. By the way, huge baby-face giants are not scary, neither are tiny squids that can be born 10 hours after conception. They take samples and never really examine them, except for the large head they decide to re-animate for the hell of it. Oh yea, heads explode for no given reason. So is it an infection?

Is it worm like things that grow out of the ground? Does the infection make human heads explode or turn you into a baby-face giant engineer guy? Two dudes get lost, come across a worm like thing, and decide it is best to pet it like it was a cat or something. This is despite these two guys were the cowards leaving early in the initial exploration. Oh yea, the captain abandons the monitor of them in order to bang Theron, who is merely eye candy in the film. There are also two co-pilots, one of which is Benedict Wong who was great in Sunshine, but all their dialogue relates to a stupid bet. There are also a bunch of mercenaries on board, and you never know what happens to the last two. One minute three of them are helping Mr Weyland, the next minute two of them are never seen again. What is with Guy Pierce doing small roles in films? (The Road, Hurt Locker, etc) Why not just get a genuine old guy to play the part? The main female lead escapes the other scientists to have her alien baby removed. She survives this graphic ordeal and NOBODY chases or looks for her. She just re-joins the crew LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED and nobody says, "hey what happened to the baby?" "You had the machine cut it out of you?" This would be a major interest for scientists but I guess this crew thinks it is NO BIG DEAL.

There was no sense of dread, thrill, or excitement to be had watching this film. She gives birth to a squid, the squid becomes a giant face-hugger like thing, attacks the giant baby-face guy, and this giant guy has a traditional alien explode out of him. There is no real ACTION sequences. The most climatic thing is when the one scientist asks Theron to burn him, oh wait that was not exciting either.

Another ridiculous thing is when two co-pilots just volunteer to die to pilot a craft into the aline vessel that is leaving. Like the captain wasn't enough. IT ISN'T LIKE THE SHIP COULD FLY ITSELF AT ALL. Is there anything like cruise control or targeting of any kind, let say after 2089?. Lets lift our hands up and gladly die to crash this spaceship. As Hudson would say, "you can count me out!" Woops I assumed this movie would be intelligent to a certain degree and I was dead wrong.

Wow, long review. Rent this one if you are curious but not worth the hype. 4/10 due to Fassbender performance and great special effects.

I bought this DVD prior to watching given the fact that it is difficult to find and all of the Blockbuster locations are closing. I read many reviews prior to buying the film.

This was a very good movie considering the budget the director had to work with. I was impressed with the action sequences and creature effects. The title does not really described this movie and neither does the front cover of the DVD. Most of the characters are played by relatively unknown actors ( aside from the African American cop from Six Feet Under series) but they all do a decent job.

Definitely worth checking out or buying on Amazon.

I saw this film a couple of days ago and must say that I was very disappointed. Every cliché in the book is used in this movie and there were no surprises to be had. Zero character development. The first twenty minutes or so attempts to do this but fails miserably. I did not care about any of the characters and was hoping that they would be killed an hour into the film so I could go home.

First of all Michelle Rodriguez needs to hire a new agent as she is always playing the same butch, tough, and manly female army/marine/SWAT character. As soon as she appeared I almost laughed out loud because I swear she has said the same dialogue in other movies. Speaking of dialogue, there is an extreme cheese factor here and many laughable moments. "I would go to hell and back for you sir." Lol the best is when Aaron Eckhart recites the serial numbers of his fallen soldiers and then all of a sudden his marines respect him, like that makes everything okay. And how do they find the command center? I think the use of military lingo is an attempt to dupe the audience in to believing there is some depth and intelligent screen writing, which there is isn't. This is very PG-13 film and it shows in the script and lack of violence.

I will say that the special effects and some of the action sequences are done well.

I give this film 5/10. Play call of duty instead or go to the marine recruitment center nearest you. Call of duty characters are at least more real believable compared to Ne-Yo and the wooden characters in Battle LA,