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Reviews
Prometheus (2012)
Good looking, but mostly poor characters
I don't get those that rate it 10/10, 9/10, simply give it a high rating. The movie is too vague and really force you to pay attention to details. Very few bother to watch it 1000 times to understand clues.
The characters are mostly lame, the mohawk-guy smokes weed and is grumpy, that's his character. Another guy is trying to pet a snake, that's dumb. No matter if the suit might protect you, you got to think a bit when you face a thing that you haven't seen before. The lead actress comes to a conclusion simply by saying "that's what I choose to believe", and she is supposed to be a scientist? Stupid, but luckily they killed her off in Covenant (spoiler). David and Janek are the characters that are of good quality, the rest are failures.
Prometheus gave us the Engineers, they were interesting, but unfortunately we got very little of them in Covenant. I hope that they will do something with the Engineers in a future movie, if there will be one.
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Average
I guess that it's better than Prometheus, since it has characters that are more like humans than characters with two personality traits. Shaw is in this movie too in a way, I didn't like her in Prometheus so that's an improvement. The movie looks good and is filmed well. Alien Covenant has interesting monsters.
Unfortunately, most characters have no personality, and the main ones are not very well written or interesting. Prometheus had the same problems with the characters, but to be fair, Alien 3 was the last one that did that well. It becomes too much about the androids, but that isn't why I watch alien-movies. The Engineers are just in it for a short scene. When I put together the bad and the good, it just becomes an average movie that could have been so much better.