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<blockquote data-quote="Older Beholder" data-source="post: 9444194" data-attributes="member: 6813585">I was really impressed.Firstly, the film looked great. There was a shot of some control panels and screens inside a ship at the start of the movie that made me feel just based on the production design, that I was in safe hands. The early world building also got me in, showing the mining planet/colony where the sun is always obscured and disease is common, did a great job setting both stakes and motivation for the characters.The stakes were then constantly raised, from stuck on a mining colony where you’ll have a short miserable life, to stuck on a space station with face huggers, to the space station heading towards the rings of the planet, to a hive of xenomorphs, etc…There were a bunch of great set pieces: the face huggers in the flooded room, the elevator sequence, the zero gravity acid scene, just to name a few. A nice mix of action and horror which did a good job of capturing the feel of the first two filmsThe script was really tight, everything was set up and paid off nicely. I loved the Android Andy and his relationship with Rain, great performance. I know some people might take this as a negative, but I thought it was to the Alien franchise what The Force Awakens was to Star Wars, a reboot that does a great job of capturing the elements that made the original films so great. Just as a side note, I read that the director was a big fan of Alien Isolation and used the check points from the game in the film.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Older Beholder, post: 9444194, member: 6813585"] I was really impressed. Firstly, the film looked great. There was a shot of some control panels and screens inside a ship at the start of the movie that made me feel just based on the production design, that I was in safe hands. The early world building also got me in, showing the mining planet/colony where the sun is always obscured and disease is common, did a great job setting both stakes and motivation for the characters. The stakes were then constantly raised, from stuck on a mining colony where you’ll have a short miserable life, to stuck on a space station with face huggers, to the space station heading towards the rings of the planet, to a hive of xenomorphs, etc… There were a bunch of great set pieces: the face huggers in the flooded room, the elevator sequence, the zero gravity acid scene, just to name a few. A nice mix of action and horror which did a good job of capturing the feel of the first two films The script was really tight, everything was set up and paid off nicely. I loved the Android Andy and his relationship with Rain, great performance. I know some people might take this as a negative, but I thought it was to the Alien franchise what The Force Awakens was to Star Wars, a reboot that does a great job of capturing the elements that made the original films so great. Just as a side note, I read that the director was a big fan of Alien Isolation and used the check points from the game in the film. [/QUOTE]

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