Nominated for Best Visual Effects 
Rain (Cailee Spaeny) is desperate to get off the mining colony she is indentured to but the mandatory quota of hours has just been raised and her transfer is denied. She learns that a small group led by her ex (Archie Renaux) has a plan to "borrow" some cryopods from a derelict research station before it is obliterated by the planet's ring and escape to hopefully greener pastures outside the grasp of Weyland-Yutani. But they need her Synthetic, Andy (David Jonsson), to bypass the security inside. Once aboard, they discover that the station was researching xenomorphs, but of course, by then it's too late.
This is set between Alien and Aliens and borrows plot points from everything through Covenant. I can tell the plan was to unify all the films into one timeline but it really just seems like they were shoved in a blender and set to Chop. I don't get the hype around Fede Alvarez. He has not improved a single legacy franchise, as far as I'm concerned.
Visual effects are hit and miss. The deepfake Ian Holm is atrocious and some of the CGI xenomorph movement blurs and looks a little fuzzy. Not my favorite.
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