So I went to see Prometheus 2: Tokyo Drift, was pleasantly surprised by most of it. (I had been, like a crazy person, rewatching Prometheus every couple of months expecting it to start making sense, and searching for clues for why those people held actual positions on that ship. I had concluded that they were all suffering, decades later, from the effects of the Trump presidency in the early 21st century that made them all incompetent and spazzy).
But Prometheus 2: Tokyo Drift was actually pretty good. It was like a mulligan that Ridley Scott got from the studio. They called him in and said -- I have the transcript here actually:
- Okaaaaay, sit down Scott. Listen, uhh, people are still ripping their hair out on the internet about Prometheus and why those people were in any way qualified to be on that ship in the first place and why they weren't too impressed by an alien structure on a far off planet to begin with. Sooooo....yeaaahh..... we made some notes and we're sending you back in with the rewritten script and Michael Fassbender, and you're gonna do it right this time, because people are still irate on the internets and are emailing us and leaving voicemails on landlines just bitching about it -- do you wanna listen to some of these voicemails? They're calling us while we're shopping at Whole Foods, and it's just getting to be too much, so you have to do it over.
Michael Fassbender carried this movie singlehandedly and like a boss, I think it's safe to say, and the cameo at the beginning was pretty sweet too. Good story that's a tad predictable in places, but the visuals were great. Without giving too much away, there was a certain horror-flick aspect to it that was slightly grindhouse, though I think it may have been a bone that was thrown to the fans. A few people get redshirted by obvious dangers and there are still a few plot holes and some just plain unexplained behavior, but it holds together far better than its prequel.
The best part: all the characters, including the one played by Danny McBride, seem like they're supposed to be there and their motivations are easily understood.
What was funny personally was the fact that I had just seen "Datalore" for the first time ever (yes) just a few days prior.
4 stars out of 5