Love the robot and aliens, hate the humans.

Rating: 7/10 (10 December 2012)

In the intro we see some muscular pale humanoid drinking something and he literally falls to pieces into a waterfall. Flying above him is some giant UFO.
In 2089 we meet a pair of scientists who have discovered the same type of ancient drawings all over the world- humans pointing at some collection of UFOs.
Then we are aboard the Prometheus, a giant spaceship en route to a planet identified to be the home of man's ancestors. On board are our two scientists and a ragtag bunch of multicultural and foreign characters, one more annoying than the next. There's also a cold hot blonde who pretends to be in charge and very human-like robot- named David, what else. The whole project was funded by some dead billionaire.
Once they reach the planet they find some straight road, which can't be a natural occurrence and a mountain with a head on top. Some of these clowns go investigate inside the mountain. David is already proficient in the alien language and starts operating doors and other devices. One of them shows a holographic movie of the giant aliens, called engineers, escaping from something. They find a pile of engineer corpses. Behind another door is a giant head, liquefying vases, black liquid and worms. We learn that David is up to something.
He actually infects one of the scientists with the liquid from the room. The scientists have sex, the girl ends up pregnant with a fast growing worm. They bring a head from an engineer corpse to study. It turns out it's a helmet and inside is a humanoid alien head. Meanwhile all hell breaks lose inside and outside the Prometheus.
Prometheus is an interesting sci-fi movie I must say. It offers more than just nondescript aliens eating or shooting at people for no good reason- that would be your average sci-fi movie. The sets, the he "science", the theories, all is pretty fascinating in this movie. At least it tries to tackle the issue of the origin of man and creates an interesting mythology. It offers more questions than answers, which is just as good. Perhaps the answers wouldn't be as satisfying as the possibilities the questions open. Not to mention that they have to leave something for sequels. But it does have some major weaknesses--namely most of the humans, which are annoying, unprofessional, and just plain stupid. It is a mystery how presumably intelligent people-all the writers in Hollywood-can write nothing but dumb and obnoxious characters. This crew might as well be a bunch of reality-TV star wanna-bes in space. Sci-fi is the one genre where writers could get nerdy and show off their smarts. But no. Prometheus does have some good ideas and it provides food for thought, if nothing else it makes you think of all the ways this movie could be better.