Gwen Peters

Loved the movie! That's it! I noticed that the haters all want to tell you how bad it is with minute-by-minute details, in 10 or more paragraphs... as if anyone cares that much about their opinion! Some people have a lot of time on their hands 🙄

Yawn... Didn't like anybody enough to care. Took me forever to finish because I kept forgetting I was watching it. Not surprised at all at the cliche ending. This could have been a two hour movie vs a drawn out series.

What a waste of time. I’m making a leap here, but I think the 5-star reviews are mostly from Millennials and Gen Z’ers who don’t or can’t appreciate that a good story is equally as important to a film as the action. This movie didn’t have a good premise (or there wasn’t one that I cared about), which made the action less impactful. I was 18 when the movie Aliens came out in 1986, and I went to the theatre by myself to see it. After all these years, I still remember the names of key characters without looking them up on the internet -Ripley, Nute, Hicks, Hudson, Sanchez - and others that I can clearly visualize even if I don’t remember the character’s name. That’s because the story, actors and directors, made you care about the characters and you were invested in their success. I couldn’t tell you the name of a single person in this new Alien film. There was zero character development, so I really didn’t care what happened to them. Plus, the CGI was beyond awful! The Synthetic Rook’s head looked too small for the body and I’m not sure what the hell the hybrid human/alien was supposed to be! I could go on and on picking the movie apart (there’s a lot of material to do so), but I think you get the drift. If you want to watch fun and smart films about Aliens, you should rewatch the first two movies in this series. Or, if you prefer sci-fi with no story, mediocre action, bad actors and stupid CGI, then this movie won’t disappoint.

Struggling to get through this series. The family’s reaction to Rusty being accused of murder is so ridiculous as to be unbelievable . Wife fully supports her husband even though he’s literally begging to be with another woman and is willing to leave his family to do it. Yeah that makes sense. Boys are typically protective of their mothers, but the son ignores his dad’s infidelity to make sure his dad knows that he believes in his innocence. Yep, that sounds about right. And then there’s the daughter, in 2024 you’d think a young woman would be outraged at her father for not only hurting her mom, but for also jeopardizing their family, but nah…. It’s more important that her dad gets big hugs to reassure him that she has his back. The story would be more believable if Rusty had to spend at least a few nights in the guest room. Last but not least, there’s Rusty himself. One of the most dislikable characters to ever play the wounded, misunderstood hero. Might I suggest in the last episode that the wife lets him know the day of the verdict that she’s leaving him. The son grows a pair and slugs the dad on the way out, and the daughter admits to her dad that she’s been having an affair with Tommy Molto. Then and only then, would the jury find him guilty while the audience learns it was really Rusty’s lawyer who was the killer all along because he also was in love with Carolyn. Now that would be a finale worth watching!

Time I'll never get back! It was by far the worst movie I've seen in a long time. No one I cared about and terrible story/plot execution made this movie painful to watch. I'm mad at myself for finishing it!