Review by durham100

I saw this at the cinema today and I wished I'd waited for it to come on TV. I'm a big fan of the original and this pales greatly in comparison. A lot of the characters were unlikeable and I didn't really warm to any of them so that I was rooting for their safety and survival.

This is a big movie and it says something when the most well known cast member is no longer with us. The rest all have a very short CV and you can tell. Nobody is bad, just there isn't anyone with a significant screen presence and the overall result is that despite the brilliant creatures, it all feels a little unexciting. There are one or two decent passages but I kind of left the theatre thinking, why did they bother? You just expect more from something Ridley Scott is involved in.