Mediocre sci fi flick

Rating: 1/10 (15 June 2018)

WARNING SPOILERS
I had high hopes for prometheus, and it would have been a great movie had they stuck to the original script. The original script goes into much more background detail about the engineers etc. Alien covenant just repeats the same old tired tropes. The initial landing team (as in prometheus) just treat an alien planet with organic life as a jaunt in the woods. NASA by comparison bombarded the curiosity Rover on Mars with Radiation prior to launch to kill all life to avoid polluting another planet. So our own space agencies on earth are already more professional than these jokers. My major issue with these films is that professional crew, scientists, soldiers, all just walk onto alien worlds wide eye stupid. There would be rigorous bio containment on any world harboring plant based life, because there would likely be pathogens completely alien to the human organism present.
I dont know if its Ridley Scott or the scriptwriters, but he seems unable to make a coherent movie anymore. I have great admiration for his past work, but when it comes to sci fi he seems stuck in the tropes of over convoluted tripe. A complex story arc is fine, but without properly explaining the arc to the listener its just babble.
The thing I liked about the movie was the introduction of the idea that an AI could become insane. But I feel Scott has simply evolved the idea of Bishop from the original movie. Fassbender is a master of his craft and plays both AI's superbly, but even the best actors cannot disguise bad writing. As always the concept of the film is sound, but screenplay and scriptwriting especially let it down very badly.