OK, but the next installment left me disliking this one even more.

Rating: 7/10 (6 October 2017)

I am giving this one a 7, because when it first came out, I enjoyed it. It was a very interesting look at questions that have always plagued (most, if not all) of humanity. The movie is more of a riddle, and asks more questions than it provides answers. I think this is the purpose, and a lot of the meaning and gist of the story is very subtle, but there if you look, or(admittedly, like me) watch documentary videos explaining more of it in detail.
Some points are painfully obvious, such as the suggestion of "aliens" creating humanity, or all life on this planet, in the vein of the Annunaki stories from Sumer, etc. I wish there had been more footage of the engineers and the backstory, although a bit more was released with deleted scenes footage added on later. It still wasn't much, though. There is enough action, but I thought the characters were very flat, and only certain ones get developed in an intriguing way. Idris Elba and many of the crewmembers were just wasted as boring backdrops. I could go on about all the themes, the esoteric symbolism, the alien agenda, Jesus as one of the engineers, etc. as I teach this story with sci-fi stuff for film lit., but I won't, as it has probably been done to death.
The beginning(after the aliens) is very bland, and needs something more. The action is OK, and the plot line of David being created by us, as we were created by engineers, is compelling.
The reason I am upset about this film, as many are, is that the promised sequel was supposed to really take us further down the path of this dark mystery-- but it did not. Covenant comes out, and basically just showed us that Scott was going to play out a halloween slasher flick with little substance, and maximize profits. Prometheus built up a ton of tension and public interest in Scott's direction for this interesting enigma and alien universe, and then it was like they said, " Oops. We really don't have anything else to say, or we want it to be so ambiguous and subliminal that you just aren't artistic enough to get this series anymore, so we are going back to re-shooting "Gladiator in Space" or a reboot of the original Segourney Weaver outing.
People wanted so much more, so it was a real let down. Prometheus, in retrospect, therefore gave us very little of what we wanted to see/know. I guess I am guilty of blaming this film for Covenant, but upon Covenant's release, we were disappointed and annoyed that we had to depend on the greatness and mystique of Prometheus alone, still waiting for another dominant and exploratory story in the future, that will bring the backstory and archaic mysteries back into focus in a profound manner.