Prometheus who? Don't expect any answers here.

Rating: 6/10 (29 March 2019)

Apparently Ridley Scott decided that since many fans didn't care for Prometheus, he would just write it off in a very brief & badly tied together flashback & instead make another re-read of the same old "scary aliens chasing & killing idiot space people" movie again. You know, the kind of space-monster move that we've already seen a million times, including in past installments of the Alien series? Yeah, he did that again. The writers seem to have said "All of the build up & those unanswered questions from Prometheus that you're wondering about? The Engineers being the parents of humanity? The search for their home planet & answers about why they created us & wanted to destroy us? Meh... Doesn't matter. We'll just quickly get them out of the picture entirely, so that we can go back to scary beasties chasing morons instead!"
And yes, the people in this story are complete morons. We're supposed to believe that this epic venture to spread humanity to the stars & has been in planning for a decade was left in the care of a bunch of fools that seem to have had no training whatsoever? Under the first sign of duress they completely abandon their original carefully planned out mission, then proceed to panic, fail to follow any type of basic safety or quarantine standards, & rush right into fool-hardy half-baked plans without a peripheral thought to the 2000 souls on board that are under their care?! I felt insulted by the actions & reactions of the crew in charge of this mission, & actually found myself feeling satisfied as each one got taken out by a xenomorph.
As far as the story line goes, & specifically in regards to this supposedly having been a sequel to Prometheus, I understand what other reviews have stated about the "Paradise Lost" theme, & that the story of Prometheus was followed up in this movie by following the theme of creation turning on creator, Satan vs the gods idea, but.. I just don't buy it. It's a complete detour from what was started in the previous movie, & in my opinion yet another example of Damon Lindelof having a great idea for a beginning of story, with utterly no clue how to finish it, so he declined to sign on for this movie & left it to someone else to figure out (& they failed, miserably.)
All in all, as a blockbuster film, it's a fun watch for the action & viauals. However, there's no actual scary moments that you don't see coming, & no plot points that aren't completely unsurprising. It's just very poorly written. Very well acted (mainly by Fassbender,) but just plain poorly written. Great visuals, good action, plenty of gore. But VERY. POORLY. WRITTEN.
And like the title of this review says-if you're hoping for any answers from Prometheus, go read a fan fiction or look elsewhere, because apparently they've decided to abort that storyline for more of the same. If you just want gore, death, shooting, screaming & Aliens shredding people, you're in the right place! (Oh & btw, if you don't see the "twist" at the end coming a mile away, you need to go to your doctor & get checked to make sure you're not in a coma.)