Can be watched once, but ruins the prequels

Rating: 6/10 (30 October 2017)

You can watch it once, I would describe it as a mediocre slasher movie with some rather good alien features.
Pros:
Some of the actors were alright, especially Fassbender did an outstanding job, kind of saved it for me from hating it in the end. Visual effects, filming was mostly good -the beginning of the plot was alright. Still an alien film, it starts out in a unique and deep universe - some points of the film makes you feel like you're actually watching an Alien movie. Some scenes are actually really well- written, despite the plot itself being mediocre. The movie did a great job with sustaining tensions, it rather added to the value. The predictable plot somewhat ruined it, though.
Cons:
Alien's CGI is bad. If you cut visual costs with using CGI, do not cut costs on the CGI itself. It's a bad habit of modern Hollywood movies. There are many plot holes in the events. I could count them all day long. Entirely alien planet with some different parameters, yet appears to be exactly the same as Earth. They didn't even try to make it look and work differently. It said to have lower G force for example, but that does not have an effect either. Terrible, irrational behavior, dumb, dumb decision making of a seemingly professional crew. Teenagers versus killer feeling. Characters lack in depth, only Fassbender's not. It's funny the cyborgs are more human than the humans themselves. RIP complexity of the Alien franchise. It's totally killed off now. It's like when you want to answer a complicated question, and you decide to say some dumb stuff to avoid having to explain things. The movie franchise has totally lost its potential for me. If you look it in the big picture, it's almost exactly the same as the original Alien film. Anti-Climax was badly executed and full of plot holes. Basically, the entire story was predictable from the second half of the movie.
Altogether, any of the alien movies were better, had better visuals, took place in a more fitting world, had way better story, better characters, they were much deeper and complex. What Prometheus as a modern alien movie created for us, this film destroyed it all. Some of the unanswered questions got unimpressive, lazy answers. Other important questions still unanswered.
I personally enjoyed the movie, but it did not amaze me.