Huge, huge spoilers!!!!
Ah well if Davids involvement is out there now, thats where I will chip in.
With all the talking that goes on in this film about gods and their creations why is it that just about every director, upon having a mega hit, then goes about sabotage it and destroying their own master piece?
Basically if you haven't guessed already from my hints about Ridleys mash up of two of his biggest hits what he appears to be trying to do with the franchise is to create an artificial Lector. There are so many times once David appears all I could think of was that Ridley had decided he wanted to do a sci fi robotised version of Hannibal, and he lays the references down with a trowel. All the call back to the renaissance art, poetry , detailed anatomical drawings,the flat english accent he overcooked that by a mile. And why the **** release a trailer clip showing David bombing the engineers deliberately , only to have him deny it earlier in the film.
This ,more than anything else flawed the film badly for me , in exactly the same way the engineers introduction screwed up (at least for me) the franchise. And it seemed that because they were widely not well recieved by the fans, what Ridley does here is simply replace them with another big bad ,David. And that felt like a bit of a cop out.
Its not even very clear why David wants to make the Xenomorphs at all. Yes we got an explanation for the black go which most of us here had already guessed at but by chucking out what was essentially the central mystery in Prometheus ie humanities relationship to the Engineers ,by wiping them out nearly everything that was intriguing about that film just evaporated and what you are left with is that basically an unhappy robot with a personality disorder (all be it a fairly serious one)that is hell bent on destroying the human race and thus is ultimately the daddy of the original xenomorph. But why? Whats flawed David to cause him to all HALibal?
By the very end its this predictablity that weakens the film. The callbacks to the original franchise were good, and that raised the movie for me, and the creature sequences were a welcome return to the franchise in all their various forms, even though again we often had this incredible accelerated growth rate and in my opinion they overdid the body horror.
But, like I said I did not hate the movie, but I was disappointed in the route they choose to go with it. Once we get more reviews I'll put up my exact prediction for Aliens :Awakenings. But they aren't that hard to guess.