Good sci-fiction movie but not so good as expected.

Rating: 7/10 (12 June 2012)

I do not know why everybody so much criticizes the film. I agree that there is some confusion in the behavior of the characters and damned acting. Noomi Rapace's face nice in general, but unnaturally strained as if it's was lifted by surgery, the upper lip is almost not moving, cheeks and forehead look as if injected with Botox. Charlize Theron is certainly pretty, but it looks very strange in this environment. Guy Pearce as an old Weyland is a replica of Benjamin Button of the same movie. All the main characters are written very sketchy, as if they were a puppets on the director's stage.
However I cannot accept the main criticism of the screenplay. The story, although is very simple, but it looks solid and having the idea. I will not disclose details, but let me comment on the points that became clear to me even before seeing the film when reading some reviews and seeing the movie trailer and ads.
A certain race of humanoids decided to place the life on the Earth. Then they periodically visited checking how the life developed. Whether deciding that life has evolved more than enough, and the experiment can be finished, or the seeding was made initially to test the new weapon, the aliens decided to dump millions of gallons of this crap on us, but by coincidence of someone apparently has carelessly touched her with all the alien paratroopers' base was destroyed. What are the secrets and misunderstandings does the critics see? What Creators of our Creators did the main heroine fly to seek for? The reached by "Prometheus" planet was a research or military base, and Elizabeth Shaw going to the home planet of these humanoids. What will she finds there, and what will happen next - we'll see.
One of the main advantages of the film is picture quality. Panorama and the depth of 3D-scenes are at the Avatar level. In my opinion, the latter still more spectacular, but Prometheus is not much behind him. And of course, as already noted, the outline of the film is made by "Alien" canon: a ship, scientists, a robot, a woman and a monster, everybody dies; there is only she and a broken robot at the end. So the film has to be palatable to the fans of the classic "Alien" with Ripley.
Now a bit about the robot. Yes, it is the main protagonist of the film, and the main idea of the film reveals around him : why do people make such illogical things? What force they are driven by in the thirst for knowledge? The robot apparently wants to understand this, because being like a man and even exceeding people in ability to assimilate and process information it has not these characteristics. And a soul as well. And here I would not set an equal sign. The absence of the soul here means the absence of empathy. That explains HOW he could make his action against the doctor. But the driving force of this act is the desire to make something like a human being illogical, just to see what will happen? The robot asked the main questions: "How far can you go to find answers? What are you ready for? "But someone has created our creators? So is there a God somewhere?
Assessing the film, I can say that in my view it doesn't falls short of the "Alien"/"Aliens" level with due regard for time and facilities for special effects, and of the "Avatar" in the general entertainment, but "Avatar" is rather fantasy than science fiction, and in sci-fi "Prometheus" is one of the few and the best in recent memory. So given the shortcomings of the script and the actors, some of the blunders in the details and the lack of "wow" effect I give 7 of 10 to him.