What a waste of great cinematography!

Rating: 3/10 (7 November 2013)

I didn't see this movie in its theatrical release. Instead, I waited until it came to cable, and I watched it on our new flat screen LCD TV.
I expected a great deal of suspense in the Prometheus just touching down on LV223. Instead, it looked like an amalgamation of scenes cut together, without much thought toward creating suspense.
After landing, the exploration party immediately jumps into their exploration suits, without much, if any data with the exception of atmospheric gas percentages. They then take off like the Oklahoma land rush, apparently with no thought to microbial contamination, or other dangers in landing on alien worlds.
As other reviewers have written, the lack of scientific discipline is absolutely appalling. Given the advancement from 2013, one would think that some really advanced protocols would have been developed. Instead, these folks act like Neanderthals in the way they gather samples, and barge into a literally unknown world.
David Fassbender is unbelievable as an android. He's concerned with his mimicry of Peter O'Toole. While he's spent time of the voyage in learning, he evidently left his scientific mind behind.
Noomi Rapace, for her scientific inquisitiveness, is completely overwhelmed by her religious bias, and desire to find out why a strong alien life form would want a weaker life form dead. Sorry, nobody signs up for a voluntary human sacrifice.
The rest of the cast, as has been mentioned, has no depth at all. The dialog is random, with one liners thrown in, in an attempt to bind the disjointed script together. The other characters would have been as memorable had they been cardboard cutouts. Hardly any transition, and the entire movie seems like a series of cut and paste functions.
In order to make Dr. Shaw the sole survivor, the deaths of the others are merely forced scenes to make the story come out the way Ridley Scott wanted. And Noomi Rapace is no Ridley.
The visual impact is rather stunning. At the start of the movie, the scenes are such that you really expect an epic movie. But, alas, no.
The first time I watched in on cable, I thought I missed something, but after several viewings, I've come to the conclusion, that the only thing I missed, was the time I could have spent doing something else.