For every great aspect of this film there is a moment where one of the characters looks directly into the camera, winks at you, and then vomits a reference to one of the previous films directly into the lens.
The great performance from David Jonsson, sets, lighting, practical alien effects, and some genuinely tense scenes are undermined by the film’s insistence on trying to remind you of the better entries in the series. Each of the previous instalments, despite their…