Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
Director: Fede Alvarez
Writer: Carl Flimmer
Based on the video game
Based on the Alien series
Sequel to Planet LV 426
Cast: Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Sophie Turner, Daniel Kaluuya, Cole Hauser, Michael C. Hall, Eve Hewson, Abigail Spencer
Plot: In 2137, 15 years after the disappearance of the Nostromo spacecraft, Amanda Ripley (Daisy Ridley), daughter of Ellen Ripley, is approached by the android Christopher Samuels (Oscar Isaac) of the Weyland-Yutani corporation. Samuels informs her that the flight recorder of the Nostromo was recently located by a ship named the Anesidora and is being held aboard Sevastopol, a remote space station owned by the Seegson Corporation, in orbit around the gas giant KG-348. He offers her a place on the Weyland-Yutani team sent to retrieve it so that she can have closure regarding the fate of her missing mother. Ripley, Samuels, and Weyland-Yutani executive Nina Taylor (Sophie Turner) travel to Sevastopol on board the courier ship Torrens, owned by captain Diane Verlaine (Abigail Spencer). The group arrives at Sevastopol to find the station damaged and its communications offline. Ripley, Samuels, and Taylor attempt to spacewalk over to the station to investigate, but their EVA line is severed by debris, and Ripley is separated from the others and forced to enter the station on her own.
After a little exploration, Amanda meets Alexa (Eve Hewson), a survivor who was keeping an eye on her. She convinces him to help her in exchange for a place on the Torrens as soon as they can contact her. Alexa explains that the situation in which Sevastopol is located is caused by the presence of a "monster" on the station, and after a while the Xenomorph appears and drags him into the conduits. After finding Samuels and recovering medical supplies to treat an injured Taylor, Ripley meets the station's Marshal, Waits (Michael C. Hall), and his deputy, Ricardo (Daniel Kaluuya). Waits explains that the Alien was brought onto the station by Anesidora captain Henry Marlow (Cole Hauser). Ripley learns from Marlow that the Anesidora crew discovered the flight recorder near the planetoid LV-426, where they also found a derelict ship previously found by the Nostromo crew and the nest of Alien eggs contained within. While exploring the ship, Marlow's wife was attacked by a facehugger. Marlow then brought her aboard Sevastopol for emergency medical treatment, but a Alien chestburster ultimately "hatched" from her.
Waits convinces Ripley to contain the Alien by luring it into a remote section of the station and sealing it inside. Ripley is successful, but Waits truly plotted to use Ripley as bait, and ejects the module from the station with her still inside. As the module careens into space towards KG-348, taking the Alien with it, Ripley space-jumps back to Sevastopol using an space suit. Ripley makes her way back to Ricardo, who explains that the Working Joes, the station's service androids, abruptly started slaughtering the remaining crew, including Waits. He also tells her that Samuels is attempting to interface with the station's controlling artificial intelligence, APOLLO, to cease the rampage. However, APOLLO's defensive countermeasures electrocute Samuels shortly after he opens a path for Ripley into APOLLO's control core. There, Ripley discovers that Seegson has been trying to sell off Sevastopol to Weyland-Yutani, which instructed APOLLO to protect the Alien at all costs.
When Ripley tells APOLLO that the creature is no longer aboard the station and demands to cease all activity, it refuses due to an "unidentified presence" detected within the station's reactor. Ripley goes there and discovers that it has been converted into an Alien nest. She initiates a reactor purge to destroy the nest, but some Aliens manage to escape. Ripley learns from Ricardo that Taylor was sent by Weyland-Yutani to retrieve the Alien, and that she freed Marlow in exchange for the location of LV-426. However, Marlow double-crosses her and takes her hostage aboard the Anesidora. Ripley goes to the Anesidora and discovers a message from her mother recorded after her initial report of the events on the Nostromo, thus finally giving Amanda closure. When Ripley confronts Marlow, who plans to overload the Anesidora's fusion reactor and destroy the station, thus ensuring that no Aliens survive, Taylor kills him and herself with an electric discharge, forcing Ripley to escape shortly before the Anesidora explodes.
After Ripley goes back to Sevastopol, Ricardo tells her that the Anesidora explosion destroyed the station's orbital stabilisers, causing the station to slowly drift into KG-348's atmosphere. Ripley and Ricardo contact the Torrens for extraction, but a facehugger latches on to Ricardo, forcing Ripley to leave him. After making her way outside to help the Torrens detach from the station, Ripley is surrounded by several Aliens and then thrown into the ship due to a blast. Aboard the Torrens, Ripley discovers that another Alien has boarded the ship. Ripley is cornered in the airlock; she opens it, ejects her and the Alien into space. Adrift in her space suit, Ripley is awakened by a searchlight.
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