Like sitting through a boring lecture

Rating: 1/10 (11 June 2012)

Oh Prometheus, a movie that desperately wants to be something it is not. On the surface you are supposed to get the idea that Prometheus is a deep, philosophical analysis of man's search for meaning by discovering his origins. At its core the movie is a mixed bag of philosophy, monster mania and sci-fi mumbo jumbo. It is just all over the map and it doesn't wrap up anything to any satisfying conclusions. Sure, this was the intention of the movie makers, to leave open doors so people could come together and talk about them till the cows come home. If you want to leave the ultimate questions unanswered, fine, but when you bring up some other plot points and then just leave them hanging it pretty much destroys continuity. Don't get me wrong there are people who enjoy this kind of lazy, attention deficit film making. The "look we don't know what happened inside that room (and we don't care)", "the filmmakers didn't hand us the entire story on the silver platter, (since they lacked imagination to make it interesting), isn't that cool?" No, it's not! As you can tell it isn't my thing, some people liked that and for some people Prometheus is a masterpiece and anyone who dares to dislike this movie must not be smart. Read the message board for people like that. In the end, you want to make a movie with a message you have to remember to make it entertaining, which this movie lacked.
The movie was supposed to be a prequel to the "Alien" series, and then the director changed his mind. This kind of indecisiveness shows because there are times you get the idea we are totally connected and then we are getting the idea that it was something completely different. We start going down one corridor and then you realize as we head down another that we are in a totally different movie, not just a different corridor. There is supposed to be a director's cut already that is 2 hours and 27 minutes but what Prometheus needs is less, not more. It needs to cut out the stories that started and then were just forgotten about, it needs to decide if it wants to be a philosophical mumbo jumbo journey or a monster flick. It just needs better direction.