Alien review continued:

Despite escalating tension written into the script, the movie still has a repetition problem. Visually it all looks the same after a while. The general structure is like this: characters try a plan, fail at plan, then cut to the characters sitting in a room debriefing about how they failed the plan. It’s always in debrief where the characters are talking about how there’s no body or no blood but you never SEE them react to it. You never SEE the aftermath.

And again midwits before you say, “OMG use your imagination, less is more!” I’m not disagreeing with that point and ambiguity is appreciated as I mentioned before. But I would like to see these characters react to these shocking details in real time so i can relate to them. Instead, we just get the same style of shot composition, characters sitting in rooms that all start to blur together, and there’s simply no energy to the direction. It’s just languid static shots until you fall asleep or the movie ends.