Great addition to Story but many problems as a consequence

Rating: 7/10 (25 May 2017)

Just as a prologue to this, I'd like to say that -- even if I may be in the few -- I found Prometheus quite okay, not bad, not awesome, but quite good to okay. This is not an excuse to say I'm biased but just as most people hated that film they hate this even more.
I believe that the premise of the film is quite strong, although the colonist thing seemed a bit cliché I do like that this time it isn't just 10 people in pods or something as the full colonists but a skeleton crew to begin the colony and then 2000 more plus embryo's which I find a cool idea never seen before. The characters however lack motive, or character at all. The only real motive we get from Daniels is her boyfriend wanted a cabin which nicely plays in later but seems kind of weird. As well as that when people watched the prologue and thought they were going to see James Franco again; you don't. Which I find extremely weird and stupid, hiring such an actor (as in famous not good, because that he definitely is not) and then killing him immediately is a waste of a celebrity and strange. Danny Mcbride I found okay, I wasn't aware of his previous bad acting career so it didn't bother me much. Daniels is not a strong character, she is a Ripley lite of sorts and the rest of the crew is obsolete mostly except for the captain who is abundantly made clear he is an stupid idiot and will die by or give way to a Xenomorph. Now to my second point, I think the aliens in this film were actually really great; bringing something entirely new to the table. The ideas of spores created by the release of the black goo pathogen is also interesting as people thought he could use that instead of making FaceHuggers but it integrated into nature. David's workshop is all-in-all one of my favorite sets and art pieces, those amazing HR Giger drawings, models of all his failed specimens and an original (or close to) Ovomorph containing an actual Facehugger. David is my favorite character and only good character in this film in my opinion because Noomi Rapace doesn't get much screen time. Michael Fassbender plays both roles beautifully and the chemistry between himself is better even than between actual different actors and actresses. You didn't even know who was who's wife, as well as the fact I completely forgot there was a gay couple in this movie (which seems so idiotic for a damn colony ship, I mean does diversity of sexual preference really matter at the last straw of humanity?). Protomorph and Neomorph was great, but the Proto was way too cgi and not enough mix with models. Neomorph however was fast and agile so the cgi was more darting in between the colonists making it look real and brutal. As well as this the scenes with David and his creations are amazing, where he mentions; "eventually the ape stood upright" follows with where the Neomorph slowly comes from a small creature to bigger and standing upright to David, great analogy there. How David interacts with his creatures is great and something you don't see often. Thus I do find some of the other problems; stupidity of the colonists and anti-climatic reveal from Prometheus. The colonists were very stupid -- even though this does not include the 'they're not wearing helmets' argument since I doubt any colony would have 10 helmets for a mission prepared for a millionth scanned planet which they're prepared for. As well as this how they go to a completely different planet instead of planned has reasoning but still stupid and the guy who smokes in a heavily oxygenated jungle in an unknown planet (great job man). This also includes the letdown of engineer home world, they never found it so we will have to wait till Awakening and maybe Neil Blomkamp's alien 5 to find out. One last point I have to make; this movie does not screw up Alien lore with David creating the Xenomorph, they never mentioned the aliens being 'perfect creatures' or having a home world or something because most of that is non-canon and speculation and this is the actual origin because its made by Ridley Scott who made the first one. Overall it was a cool movie with lots of flaws, however I think it's good because of David, Alien origin, the planet and an amazing plot and ending which adds a completely new thing to the franchise instead of making another Colonial Marines suicide mission film. He is definitely not 'George Lucasing' the franchise as people think, he is making it more intricate and better in my opinion.