One of the few times I wanted a refund

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2012)

I'll be the first to admit, I am easily pleased. Give me a darkened theater and a bag of popcorn, and I'll usually sit through most Hollywood drivel with a modicum of satisfaction. After viewing Prometheus, I felt cheated out of my hard earned money.
I like Sci-Fi,and the special effects were pretty good, but that's where it ends. I was left with so many questions without answers. How do you assemble a 17-person crew for a gigantic exploration mission and all of them are meeting each other for the first time AFTER they've arrived? Did I miss something, or did they never explain the monetary benefit of sending a manned mission to this planet? Why would an exploratory crew, encountering a planet for the first time, just fly in and start poking around an alien installation without extensive surveillance? Why did the alien at the beginning kill himself? Why did David (the android) conduct foolish and fatal experiments on innocent crew members? Why did the alien race want to obliterate humans on earth? How can it be that aliens who are twice the size of regular humans, no less a bit strange looking, exactly match the DNA of humans? Why was the first alien plan to destroy earth scrubbed? OK, so even if there are a lot of unanswered questions, I can still enjoy a good story without having everything laid out for me, but I never really cared about any of the characters. Then there's the whole C-section scene. Ummm... Ridley Scott, we've already seen the alien-in-the-abdomen trick. The scene was just a bit too gratuitous for me. I rated it a 4 for cool special effects, but I left feeling like I wasted 2 hours and $15.50.