Over-hyped, but a worth of watching

Rating: 6/10 (3 June 2012)

Prometheus is a decent sci-fi movie. However, it loses for example Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner and isn't the tip of its genre. Secondly, the approach angle is now focused more on action, Blade Runner has a different angle. This strategy brings on a lot of pace and dangerous events, but many things are processed only superficially. We hear some things about Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) along the movie, but her background stays still quite unclear. From other characters are told very little.
The gallery of characters is generally very typical for a sci-fi movie. Elizabeth is a scientist and the hero of movie, who has a relationship with other scientist, Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green). Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) doesn't appreciate Shaw's efforts to solve the mystery about the birth of human race and she wants to take all credit for their achievements. Meredith misses planet Earth and wants return home after setbacks. Captain Janek (Idris Elba) is the driver of ship and the operator of group, who follows incidents mostly inside the spaceship. David (Michael Fassbender) is an immortal robot, who brings on the movie humans-machines set-up. There are also several other characters, but they don't have much screen time.
Rapace is the best actor of the movie, overwhelming. She manages to bring out Elizabeth's feelings and persona. For example, the stomach surgery scene was absolutely amazing. They have definitely chosen a right person to act Elizabeth. Rapace's performance isn't as magical as with Lisbeth Salander's character in Millennium trilogy, but she does the job well. David was another character, whose performance I liked. David's inexpressive and insensitive world comes out decently from the personality of the character. Disappointmently Scott and the company don't go deeply into characters. We don't learn to know them well so at least I could't feel sympathy when they started to die one by one.
The prologue of movie was stunning. I have no words how fantastic it looked like. It shows us nice portrayal and impressiveness. The visual side of movie is magnificent from first scene to the last one, even if I watched the 2D-version (I am not a fan of 3D) of movie. With 3D Prometheus surely looks even better. After the first scene we are moved to Scotland where Elizabeth and Charlie are researching caves in 2089. They find mind-blowing information. Next we have a time jump, which confused me a bit. Inside the spaceship David is introduced and soon the rest of our heroes are revealed. Five years have passed and we are in 2094. Our little friends are on their way with spaceship Prometheus to a long-distance planet and their purpose is figure out who or what is behind the origin of human race. And this is basically what Prometheus is asking from us. What do we are and where are we originated from? The rest of movie is got place in that long-distance planet. Off course, everything goes totally wrong and the future of human race is driven to danger and so on, nice. Characters start to die one by one little by little and in the end only Elizabeth is still alive (I don't count two part-robot, David). What a surprise!
The origin of human race is an interesting theme and it is dealt with decently, thought the main focus is on events, not pondering. It is hard to find depth like Blade Runner in Prometheus. Things are what they first seem to be. Until Fifield and Millburn die, the movie proceeds logically and new exciting information is revealed little by little. However, moped gets out of hands during the film. There is more and more action and killing and less and less pondering when the film is progressing. At the end there is a risk, which is focused against our Earth. Yes, yes, we got a lot of excitement, but maybe they could have done that differently.
The more ordinary humans-machines set-up is brought out trough David. David haven't feelings, but he shows up as a very loyal character during the film. There isn't anything new inside this old and traditional theme. There is a human who have feelings and a machine who haven't feelings.
Prometheus was a worth of watching, even if the end result doesn't separate much from a typical sci-fi movie. I have to admit that I am slightly disappointed, because the hype around the movie was massive. The movie has an open end so we might see more in a near future.