If JJ Abrams made an Alien movie, it’d be a lot like this. True, JJ would have had fewer inventive scenes in favor of much more lens flare, but otherwise it is very The Xenomorph Awakens. They rehashed every quotable line and moment from the first two movies but for a power loader and a “game over man.”
Great design and more coherent than Prometheus / Covenant, but I’ll always prefer flawed movies that go for it and have something to say. If you really want a great back-to-basics Alien movie that still manages to be original and about something, play the videogame Alien: Isolation.
That David Jonsson tho. Cinema magic.
Giving a very deceased actor a major role, like 3rd / 4th on the call sheet, via CGI necromancy is the most Weyland-Yutani move in the franchise.
