mysteriously out of nowhere.
Heading down to investigate,
they find the planet hosts earth-
like vegetation, along with some
very familiar eggs, two of which
are cracked open by a pair of
red shirts who immediately find
their bodies hosting minute
black spores.
This early passage offers the
strongest material we’ve seen in
the franchise since David
Fincher’s flawed but interesting
Alien 3, as Scott skillfully ratchets
up the tension, using our knowl-
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edge of the series’ lore, and his
character’s ignorance of same, to
create some nail-biting suspense.
Once a returning character
from Prometheus shows up in
the second act it’s all downhill
sadly, as Scott once again finds
himself bogged down in point-
less and unnecessary world-
building. The middle section of
the film plays out like a riff on
those mad scientist narratives
that were so popular in the hor-
ror cinema of the ‘30s. You know
the kind - a bunch of square-
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