Prometheus Fallen

So I watched "Prometheus" again, the Alien franchise prequel from 2012 featuring Noomi Rapace ("Lisbeth Salander" from the Millennium films). In the very first "Alien" film (made already in 1979), a space ship from Earth discovers an alien craft on a deserted planet, complete with the remains of an alien astronaut with a big snout. His origins are never explained, but it´s strongly implied that the elephantimorph was killed by his mysterious cargo - yes, that would be the monstrous "xenomorphs" the entire franchise revolves around. The point of "Prometheus" is to provide these answers, at least to some extent. 

It turns out that the elephant-like creatures are really humanoid (the "snout" is part of their space suites), understand Proto-Indo-European and visited Earth in the past, when they created humanity! Thousands of years later, the aliens try to return to Earth, this time to kill off all humans, for reasons never made clear. Their crescent-formed ship is downed on a deserted planet, together with a lethal cargo of snake-like creatures, which turn out to be the ancestors of the xenomorphs (or perhaps of a closely related species - the monster in this film is dark blue rather than pitch black). The original intent was to release these critters on Earth as a bio-weapon against wayward humanity. Not realizing the hostile intent of the alien "Engineers", a group of human scientists arrive on the planet and revive the last remaining quasi-elephantimorph, in the hope that he will reveal the secret of eternal life. Unsurprisingly, the alien cosmonaut tries to kill the humans. Meanwhile, the bio-weapon infects several members of the science mission, which turns out to be teeming with robots, mad billionaires, and other people with secret agendas...

It could have been an interesting story. Unfortunately, it mostly isn´t. I didn´t like "Prometheus" very much the first time I saw it, and I can´t say I was that thrilled by it this time either. The first half of the film contains too many illogical situations. Many of the crew-members of the earthly space ship seem to be downright moronic. Paleo-xenomorph evolution is just too complicated. Director Ridley Scott apparently had all kinds of pretentious philosophical ideas he wanted to express with this film, but it never really succeeds. And despite protestations to the contrary, it really is a remake of sorts of the 1979 flick. 

The most intriguing theme hidden away somewhere in "Prometheus" is that the alien Engineers of humanity might be fallen angels rather than gods. They don´t seem particularly "good", after all, and their military obviously has a penchant for super-deadly weapons of mass destruction. Who knows, perhaps the Creators seeded humanity as food to produce xenomorphs for use in some intergalactic war? It seems that our bodies are necessary hosts for the monsters during their parasitic life-cycle. In other words, the xenos are Nephilim...

What a pity it was all screwed up by a bunch of dude bros with bad British accents!