if you hated Prometheus, you won't like this one either

Rating: 5/10 (18 September 2017)

Remember how you felt about Star Wars? The three originals were, if not exactly hard science fiction, quite entertaining, great fun. Then came the next three, which... wasn't. And even if the new batch is better than those, it's not like the first time.
The Alien-series has sort of copied that path. The first was great. The second even better. The third was not as good, but still the third best in the series, and I quite liked it. The fourth... started out well, but then deteriorated fast into utter silliness, with that hybrid Alien monster. And then came the Alien vs Predator, clearly on a low budget, both with regard to actors and script writing.
What we have now, is hard to make heads or tail of. Prometheus started not so bad, but again quickly imploded upon itself. This one, well, if you're longing to see the Alien monsters again you won't be disappointed, but maybe you will feel a bit let down, since they seem like more of a side show now.
Ridley Scott has made some of the best movies I've ever seen. Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down. But it's been quite some time since these films, and everything since then, with the possible exception of The Martian, has been severely below par. This movie isn't awful, it's just not very good, or interesting. I actually bought it, because I didn't catch in the theaters, and I wanted to catch up. I won't buy the next one.