The sixth installment in the Alien franchise came with a promise: to improve upon Prometheus and relaunch the franchise. While it may succeed in the first, besting Prometheus was a low bar, all it does is solidify the first two movies as the only worthwhile ones. Maybe it was my fault for having expectations, but clearly director Ridley Scott has decided he wants a movie more about jump scares than the deeper sci-fi horror of the first film, which he also directed.