Here are some of my general thoughts:
* Very reverent of the franchise, but it gets to a point where it becomes a detriment. I think it rehashes things we've seen before and not always in a good way.
* I like Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson's performances and their dynamic. The other characters are basically little more than Xenomorph meat.
* There's one thing that was one of the cooler Xenomorph scenes in recent memory and I found it to be the high point of the film, but it goes downhill after that.
* There are some very cool sequences that are well-constructed and look great. On their own, there are some great scenes here that look great and are well-shot, but the story around them is weak.
* It reinforces the things from the prequels that don't really work. These elements are very forced.
* There are multiple callbacks and nostalgia-bait things that don't work or make any sense in context. They are only pure fan service. I'm not against fan service if it's done well. Not done well in multiple instances here.
* I like that they try to stick to the aesthetic and retro-future style of the 1979 movie. Yet it pays homage to the prequels where everything is super modern and high-tech, and it doesn't really align very well.
* Over reliance on CG for a specific character that doesn't look very good, especially considering all the practical effects and visual effects that they do use here look very good.
* The Xenomorph at one point does something kind of goofy that was sort of stupid to me. Mileage may vary on that.
* I do like how oppressive and evil Weyland-Yutani comes off here. They are basically the true villains of the story.
* The movie doesn't really have anything new or unique to say? It's just kind of repeating things that came before. It reveres the films, but it basically rehashes things that have come before even something that audiences generally hated decades ago, and yet it does them again. Why?
* I feel like Ridley Scott needs to have the franchise taken away from him at some point. I don't get why he has so much say on it now. He left it behind for decades, and now it's like he's the Godfather now?
