An entertaining and immersive film

Rating: 9/10 (28 July 2016)

I've noticed a lot of hate and disappointment towards Prometheus and I must say I did enjoy the film and I'm also a die hard fan of the original Alien. I think all the disappointment with this film comes from people expecting it to be a prequel to Alien, don't get me wrong I still think it is, but I think most fans frankly just wanted to see the Xenomorph back on the screen in a movie directed by Ridley Scott, the director of the original Alien. I enjoyed the movie and think it is a good film, and I think it's actually a great prequel to Alien, but I can see why people still dislike the film. I would agree that some of the people's decisions in the film didn't make a lot of sense and seemed like a slasher flick in terms of boneheaded decisions, such as when Fifeild and Milburn get spooked and decide to go back to the ship, even though they are scientists and should have expected aliens especially when they were briefed about how they might meet their creators. They also decide to go back without directions too. Stuff like that in the movie is why I only gave it an 8 rating. I also think that Ridley did mess up in the fact that this movie would have perfectly connected Alien to Prometheus if he just changed a few things. Instead of having it be a different planet than the one in Alien, he should have made it LV-426. He should have had the actual Xenomorphs toward the end of the film and made them be biological weapons that the engineers made to kill us, in fact he could have had Milburn and Fifield run into a face hugger instead of a snake, or he could of had the black goo turn Fifield into an actual Xenomorph. I think Ridley Scott should have had the Xenomorphs been the one's chasing the engineers, when they show the engineers running from something the something they were running from should have been the Xenos. At the very end instead of crashing the ship by having the Prometheus run into the Alien ship they should have had the engineer been impregnated kind of like in the movie but with a Xenomorph ( instead of a Deacon) and the engineer gets in his chair and starts to fly the ship but then the alien shoots out of his chest causing him to crash the ship, and that's how the the ship ends up in its spot that it's in in Alien and the Space Jockey is the engineer. The reason I feel that Scott should have used this film to connect Alien to Prometheus instead of making a sequel to connect it is because, number 1 if you changed a little bit of stuff in the plot it would have connected well, number 2 they have such a great cast in this film and now he's making a sequel that the only one remaining of the original crew is David ( I thought Shaw was a great character by the way and you truly did feel for her the whole film). Anyway, overall I thought it was a good film that inspired wonder into your mind as to why we are here. Although I too would love to have seen it connect to Alien better I think it did a good job in making it stand alone. I think it gave you just enough, but not too much so as to let you come up to your own conclusions about certain things, yet it still leaves you guessing on one question: Why did they try to destroy us after they made us? Overall I recommend this film to fans of sci-fi and fans of the Alien universe, emphasis on the universe from Alien, because if you just liked the Alien itself and the space horror of the classic then this is not for you, but if you enjoyed the universe, creatures and characters Scott creates then you will most likely love this film.