Overview: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Verdict: The seventh entry in the Alien franchise is directed by Fede Alvarez (“Don’t Breathe”/”Evil Dead”) as a horror story in outer space. Though competently made, it’s not offering anything new in the alien world– preferring to play it safe.

But to its credit is a throwback to the great original Alien (1979) and the outstanding second film. Its CGIs are marvelous, even if it’s dialogue is only serviceable and its supporting characters are only thinly developed. Alvarez co-writes the sci-fi thriller with Rodo Sayagues Mendez as if stuck in the past and not willing to get unstuck.

The exploited space colonist, the 20-something Rain (Cailee Spaeny), lives on an inhospitable corporate owned mining colony planet with no sunlight, with her friendly android “special needs” bad pun telling brother Andy (David Jonsson).

Her ex-boyfriend Tyler (Archie Renaux) and his sister Kay (Isabela Merced) are escaping from this corporate prison with the rebel space colonists Bjorn (Spike Fearn) and his girlfriend pilot Navarro (Aileen Wu), to a more livable and brighter planet, Yvaga, and invite her to take with them the year-long flight.

But before taking off, they must fly to an abandoned space station that has drifted above their planet to steal its hypersleep chambers, needed to secure the flight to Yvaga. But they are confronted by the sinister Xenomorph aliens and creatures called facehuggers, as things turn into a nightmare. In a powerful scene, with jump scares, the group is chased through the space station’s corridors by a bunch of leaping facehuggers (creepy creatures we have seen before in other sequels).