Let me give this a little backstory.
For my money’s worth, Alien is one of the most fascinating franchises in all of movies.
Three of the greatest directors of our era who all made three very different movies within the same franchise.
And all this praise is without even mentioning the very underrated ‘Prometheus’, Scott’s prequel movie.
Like usual, I’ll give it to you in some quick pros and cons.
PROS:
- This movie is a perfect blend of ‘Alien’ and ‘Aliens’.
- The production value is everything you could hope for and more.
There are big, real sets, cool props and very unsetting creature work.
- The big CGI pieces they do have lookamazing.
Some of these space squences are among the best I’ve seen in movies.
- The cast is great.
Cailee Spaney is solidifying herself as the next it-girl and David Jonsson did great work as well.
- You’ll see a lot of people talking about the third act and deservedly so.
It is really scary and introduces you to some stuff you’ve never seen in this franchise before.
- There is one creative call about a reference to the original movie that I disagree with.
I can’t say a ton more without spoiling but I wasn’t a huge fan.
The movie comes out tomorrow with Thursday night previews tonight.
