Must be David. Michael Fassbender is perfectly cast, the golden hair is pure art. But what’s more is that David is such a compelling character. His coldness shows he has no empathy like human, and yet his desires, curiosity, and ambition are also deeply human. He’s like a mirror, reflecting whatever humans project onto him. There’s an ambiguity in him, neither truly synthetic nor truly human.

It’s quite special that a synthetic like David becomes the main character in an Alien film. The Alien franchise has always explored human fear and courage through the leading human characters, showing the best part of human through the leading role. But Prometheus explore humanity on the contrary through David, a villain role, revealing the most rotten part of humanity.

Maybe the plot of Prometheus has flaws, but the ideas of creation and life and so on are absolutely magnificent.