So our "protagonists...

This always bothered me.

Our heroes are a bunch of scumbags who start off the movie by kidnapping random people in stasis to be sold to the military for what they have to know is nothing that is going to be beneficial to them. In fact, they'd have to know these people are going to be killed. And we're supposed to root for these people? Give a shit if they survive?

Then they introduce Johner stupidly acting like a monkey and dropping a knife in his crew mates leg. Then he gets super pissed because Call breaks the knife. He tells Call he's not a person to be fucked with. He tells us rather than the film showing us. What the film showed was him acting like an imbecile. This is really his intro?

Probably worst of all: They're on a military vessel and stumble across Ripley playing basketball. That's fine. But then she hits Johner with the ball and a backhand and because of this Christie goes into kill mode with a barbell? A hit that would kill an ordinary person or at least severely fracture their skull. They don't even know who she is. For all they know she could have been Perez's wife for fucks sake and they're just ready to kill her at the drop of a hat.

Elgyn stops trying to escape from a ship teeming with lethal aliens so he can...what? Check out a hallway? Collect some guns?

And DiStephano getting all star struck because Call is an android built by other androids? Who gives a shit? Dude, you're in the middle of a life or death situation being attacked by an alien species you've never seen before and this is the thing that makes you go "wow"? It reeks of the writer telling us we should feel this way instead of building the characters and situation so we organically feel that way without being told to.

They give us some real fucking stupid and unlikable characters and then have them do some real fucking stupid things for no explainable reason.