- They didn't get the Alien right
almost everything was off. Oram had a chest splatter of blood before expressing pain;
the life cycle was too quick and the facehugger impregnation on Lope was facepalm. The adult variation was full on AvP almost. No elegant, sinister, almost beautiful portrayal that has been sorely missed since '79 (maybe 86)
+ However I liked the new chestburster. Translucent and spindly, it's a disregard of the old design but one that's executed well enough.
+ Loved the Neomorph. The backburster remains the most thrilling sequence in the film from the preview footage.
- The second act left me cold. Tonal switch to Prometheus 2 from an outright Alien film was jarring. Even though I did like the Fassbender philosophical babbling
+ Fassbender is just outright wacky and crazy as David. Scenes between David and Walter are weird yet appreciated for adding a bit more complexity to your standard Aliens killing everything movie.
+ Acting is generally really good.
- Characterisation is null and void however.
+ David's little shop of horrors.
+ In what is otherwise an extremely bleak film, there is some genuine giggles mostly from Fassbender's androids. "Let me do the fingering" and "Don't let the bed bugs bite" were hilarious.
- I felt it was too short. The breakneck pace after they land on the planet needed padding out in some section, probably the third act. Actually definitely the third act. More care to the Alien life-cycle would have been greatly appreciated and may have bumped it up a mark in my books.
+ Looks gorgeous.
