Nice looking film with a stupid story

Rating: 5/10 (10 June 2012)

I'm not really a horror movie fan but I am a SciFi fan. I personally think that aliens is more SciFi than horror. I liked Alien and Aliens, but number three just was dumb and unfortunately this prequel follows suit. Let me start with the good. The movie is visually very nice looking and it starts with a Moon like isolation of David(Fassbender) which is brilliant. The next character is also strong, Charlize Theron; she has really kicked ass as far as acting this summer. Then they start to wake up everyone else and the movie takes a dive that it never recovers from. Not only do really smart people do dumb things in this movie but some of the dialog, especially some of Iris Elba's lines are just poorly written. Durting the film I wanted to like Noomi Rapace's character but I just couldn't and her partner Logan Marshall Green was such a jerk that it was really hard to root for him. The rest of the cast were generic again this really hurts the film.
Now I have to say I was a fan of the original Lost all the way up until it became the John Locke show and this movie suffers from the same tunnel vision that the ending episodes of Lost suffers from. Its hard to go somewhere when you've given yourself no where to go. Prometheus quickly reveals itself to have no where to go and yet sets itself up for a sequel. We can only hope that someone else takes over the story.