Underwhelming

Rating: 4/10 (24 September 2017)

Pretty disappointed, of course very gruesome (as to be expected), but pretty underwhelming on the genuine scare factor. Reminded me a lot of Alien 3, but Alien 3 had a lot more interesting characters. A hillbilly named Tennessee who knows John Denver music from 150 years prior? Oh come on!, what a lame and unimaginative character. And I could not bring myself to care about that woman's cabin by the lake. I'll take Charles S Dutton and Pete Postlethwaite any day.
Predicable plot twists, painfully stupid decisions made by the characters to advance said plot. Really? This movie is supposed to be pre-Weyland-Yutani knowing about Xenomorphs and wanting them for their bio-weapons division right? I'm supposed to believe that a corporation in the future who invests presumably trillions of dollars in a colonization mission would tolerate the ship's XO making the decision to trot off course to explore some planet with the cargo of 2000 civilians and hardware on the line on the word of a guy named "Tennessee", who thinks he hears John Denver? Get out of here. And nobody, but nobody was doubting that the switcharoo of the Androids happened. Nobody was fooled except very young people who should not be watching this gory film, and I doubt even they were.
Ridley Scott, you've lost your touch. Contrary to the many people who complained, I enjoyed Prometheus. You should have stuck with your original vision instead of rewriting the script to please the puritans. And thanks to you fans who screamed you wanted more of the same old Xenomorphs from back in the day. Congratulations you free market consumer feedbacked your way into getting a mediocre slasher flick.