Prometheus 2 is no Alien

Rating: 6/10 (2 August 2017)

The film looks great and the soundtrack is very good. Michael Fassbender does a good double role as the two androids, as he usually does with whatever material is given to him. That's it. There isn't anything else redeeming about the movie.
This is truly a sequel to Prometheus. It directly follows that story, shows characters that are doing the same mistakes as the crew of the Prometheus and in trying to push (again) the strong female lead they really mess up by making everybody else clinically retarded. What is worse is that the lead is not even close to Ripley and manages to be worse than Shaw. The rest of the cast are just idiots, conveniently chosen to check the inclusive check boxes: Black guy who does nothing really other than die, check; Women everywhere, even if they behave hysterically and can't do anything right, check; Gay couple that survives a little bit more than the black guy, check. Of course, no Asian guy, because that's allowed. Even the AI was stupid in this film.
Bottom line: I can't talk too much about the plot without spoiling it (it's that paper thin), but I can tell you that my wife, who doesn't watch horror movies and couldn't care less about Alien or the mythos or realism in film, was outraged at how bad it all was. I simply expected it to be better than Prometheus. It wasn't.