Nothing too new, but well done for sure

Rating: 6/10 (16 May 2017)

Short version: hey, I thought it was pretty good but I get the complaints. So, while I do think Ridley Scott retread QUITE a lot of ground in this one, in a lot of aspects I think he improved upon his original works. Visually, this movie surpasses Alien by a million miles (even though I think Alien's visuals worked for it's tone, just in terms of detail Prometheus wins). It is kind of disappointing how exactly in many ways this followed Alien, but there were a lot of nice new touches. The opening scene was really the direction I wish the whole movie had gone: more reserved, more ambiguous, and visually more naturalistic than the series is. I also loved the effect of David's memory viewing; I wished touches like this were added in more often. It does sort of descend into schlock near the third act, but it is enjoyable schlock nonetheless. Even though I would like to know all about the Engineers, people who complained about this seem to forget Ridley Scott is a fairly A-list director, and followups to his most famous movie series will probably come by easily (so just be patient, I guess). I would definitely recommend this, just to not take it as seriously as most people seem to have.