Apparently the best scenes were taken out and used as virals

Rating: 4/10 (5 June 2012)

There's a scene in the Simpsons where Lionel Hutz attempts to present himself as a competent lawyer until we find his briefcase is full of shredded newspaper.
That's Prometheus if it's profession were sci-fi.
Peaks at around 5 minutes in. What follows is an insulting cascade of narrative non-sequiturs thrust along by characters that do what the narrative demands regardless of believability. The score is absolutely horrendous. The story is incapable of justifying the religiosity of its characters as much as their scientific backgrounds. The creatures belong in a lake in Fellowship of the Ring. The twists are twists for twists sake. It's got its tonal aspirations entirely wrong, trying to inject comedy when horror should be focus and trying to inject grandiosity where none is needed.
It has some outrageously sweet cinematography and the actors performances are good in some places making one wonder if their script matched the finished product. Certainly Fassbender has a passion for something here but God knows what it was.
If were a bad summer block-buster or a bad serious film that would be one thing. It just can't decide what it wants to be bad at.