An idiotic film that insults the audiences intelligence

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 2012)

Before viewing Prometheus, I was hugely anticipating a well written film with great visuals and characters who are sympathetic and easy to root for.Alas,if you view this film expecting all of this, you're bound to be disappointed. After watching the film, the only worthy aspect of the film that's worth praise is the visuals.
While the set design and visuals are grand and quite breathtaking, The film sadly suffers due to a terrible script and characters so idiotic and unlikeable that literally the film leaves nothing to the imagination other then the question as to why you bothered watching it in the first place.
The script, the story, the characters, are all horrendously written and the execution of the narrative is in fact so boneheaded and half baked that it makes you question why this film was made to begin with.
The story is about a space crew who journey to a distant and mysterious planet to discover about man's existence, and about how life started, but of course, in alien fashion, everything goes awry and the crew find themselves in incredible peril. Sound's great, right? Exciting so far, well, on paper maybe, on the screen its anything but.
The story is rife with colossal plot holes, and the characters, all apparently intelligent,well educated scientists, act so moronic and they do absolutely ridiculous things no one would do, such, in one of the moments of the film, the crew venture inside a cave, and, one of the characters takes off his helmet, despite the fact the air surrounding the cave outside is dangerous and toxic, yet all of the scientists, proceed to take off their helmets, despite being on an alien planet they've NEVER been on before, and the air could harbor a virus or any type of bacteria in the air, or anything could just leap out while they have their helmets off yet no one ever considers that, and they all decide to remove their helmets based on what one of the characters say, despite the potential risk of getting infected is still there. Its hard to believe this script actually gets the green light, and one of the studios agreed to use such a dense and feeble script for such a hugely anticipated film.
Here is more eye rolling moments for you. During the first expedition, two of the scientists, who apparently know the layout and designed the map of the area, suddenly get lost in the caves, even though they said they were going back to the ship, however, being as thick and stupid as they are, they take a different route through another cave, and the ship, which is capable of seeing where the crew are, because of the cameras built into their space suits, don't ever bother to notify them that they're going the wrong way and they simply let them get lost. And then, days later, when the missing two geologists come across an alien, in a cringe worthy and frankly ludicrous scene, they begin to freak out like little children before then, all of a sudden, start to at like idiots in front of the creature, and one of them even get up close and try to touch it, even though the creature obviously looks dangerous and intimidating enough. All of the characters lack any common sense and to sum them up, they are the equivalent of dumb teenagers out of a slasher film, they blatantly do idiotic things that result in them getting killed. And most of the characters in the film, besides Elizabeth shaw, have no development or emotional depth, and the majority of them are just fodder that are in the film just to get killed. The whole film is a deeply flawed, effortlessly conceived mess and it makes the viewer feel more frustrated then thrilled. The only positives in the film, however, were some parts that due to the particular ineptness of some scenes, ended up being funny. Elizabeth Shaw, who learns there is in fact a creature living inside of her, has to have an operation before the creature emerges or potentially kills her. When she reaches the machine, it tells her it only operates on male patients, despite the fact its still able to operate on her, and, above all the machine doesn't even bother to sedate her before performing surgery on her, which is ridiculous, because she could possibly die of blood loss during the operation if she wasn't. And she is still able to walk PERFECTLY after having a life threatening surgery and having a massive octopus creature pulled out of her stomach. And no one even asks her why there is blood all over her stomach, and why there are stitch marks across her belly.
I'm not going to continue on here, you get the picture as to how idiotic and poorly thought out the movie is. The sad thing is about the film, despite being illogical and ridiculous, as that it actually manages to destroy the mystery some of the original alien had, and it tries to appear intelligent by asking all these questions about humanity's existence but it never answers them. Ridley scott's direction is incompetent and childish, and the lead acting is either mediocre or worse. Overall, the film really shouldn't have been made, its simply feels like another insult to the alien fan base, a fan base thats was already beaten up previously by two atrocious AVP films. I don't recommend Prometheus, unless you enjoy watching bad films.