What a letdown

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2012)

Prometheus is a highly anticipated movie, and many were looking forward to it, expecting a sumptuous steak, and instead it turns out to be no better than a common fast food hamburger.
The plot starts out slow, and makes little sense, to the point of it being confusing understanding what is going on. This feeling is pervasive throughout the movie, with an incoherent plot, and it never makes much sense. When the real "villain" pulling the strings is revealed, its almost laughable. Some no-name actors in the major roles don't help matters. Michael Fassbender is the exception, and tries his best, but even he seems to make little impression as an enigmatic android. He is given too little to work with, it wasn't his fault.
The only really good element in the movie is the scenery, which is visionary and occasionally awe-inspiring, with desolate and rocky vistas on an unknown planet, its quite well done. The advanced futuristic tech is pretty interesting as well, with cool gadgets and neat ideas about how the technology might be in the future.
Everything else besides this is disappointing, and its a shame they couldn't have made the story and characters live up to the mysterious far away planet vistas and the distant lonely space atmosphere they created.