Prometheus. Are you Really Seeing This? Laughing.

Rating: Null/10 (28 September 2012)

'Had heard so many bad things about this one but when I got the chance to watch it last night, I didn't look away. After all, at the very least it has Noomi Rapace and Charlize Theron. Anyway, five minutes after the opening sequence I decided that it was going to be a comedy, you know, the so-bad-it's-good type. After that about the first 40 minutes were so dull that I found myself dozing off at times. The 'comedy' takes over after that as the film leaps from one cliché to another, one idiotic situation to another until the very end. The caricatures, I mean 'characters' are mind-numbingly stupid. While their actions already support that, even the dialogues are incredibly dreadful (but they do provide some good much-needed comic relief, unintentionally of course). I doubt the actors can be blamed at all especially when they're given such horrendous material to work with. 'Prometheus' has no depth at all and that would have been okay if it was trying to be a cheesy sci-fi horror but that isn't the case here. The score is abysmal and creates an atmosphere of melodrama as if dictating how the viewer should feel. The special effects are okay. I wouldn't say Ridley Scott is among the best directors but in my humble opinion, this is amongst his worst. On the positive side, it's visually detailed and looks 'realistic'.