So to start, did anyone else feel like the people in this film just didn't react to what was going on around them very well, for the last part of the film no one seemed to notice that there was an alien growing in one of the rooms or that whole ordeal happened, that a guy that was supposed to be dead was now walking around with them, that people were dying and that people who were supposed to be dead were coming back as a strange mutant thing, and yet there were barely any reactions to any of it as if the film was longer and they cut out minutes of these people reacting to anything that was going on around them.
From reading this topic, this wasn't the planet that is in Alien right?
Which brings me to then what was the point, a lot of people going into this would have seen the previous Alien films and while enjoy them aren't really into the universe.
So setting this film as a light prequel to the first but throwing all this imagery that it is the same place seems like a really odd choice to me, I honestly had no idea this wasn't the same planet till I came here and read other peoples opinions on it to find out why the Engineer wasn't left in the same state as he was found in the first film.
This film left me with far far more questions than answers it gave, so I get that the Engineer at the start "sacrificed" himself and as such created us, now was this a sacrifice or a punishment, did they mean to create us and know this would happen because this black goo seen through the film seems to do all sorts of different things.
And again, why did they want to kill us, it was a big point through the last half of the film and isn't answered so I really hope this is the set up for a sequel that delves into the lore behind them more because it sure didn't give anything away.
I also thought the Engineer being revived was a little lame, for what could have been a monumental part of the film series universe as they gave us some answers they decided to go with lets just kill everyone, 30 seconds would have done me, a little insight to them as a race or their motives, but not a thing.
The black goo was a strange oddity in this film, they walk into the room that was full of the containers, which is obviously meant to be reminiscent of that scene in Alien with the eggs, but it really isn't explored any further than that. Walls that change, the containers opening, the Engineers running into the room but there being seemingly nothing left in there and then a bunch were found in a completely different place all piled up together.
And finally for now some story elements, they tried to really make it obvious that Weyland was on the ship, I'm not sure why, but then I'm not even sure why he was in any of this film past his initial introduction to begin with as it just ended up being filler that could have been taken up by something far more interesting, and that is ignoring the Father/Daughter thing going on that was a bit silly.
