A visual treat, but a confusing plot!

Rating: 6/10 (13 June 2012)

Prometheus is a ship traveling to a distant planet with a mission to find the origin of life on earth. It is so strange that no one knows why they are on the ship till they reach the planet and receive a briefing. It is expected that the engineers who built us live on the planet. But there is no substantial evidence for the belief except that many ancient cultures pointed to a common map of stars far away from earth. Those who engineered us are now determined to destroy us and again there is no reason shown in the movie.
Prometheus promised to answer our queries on life, rather left too many questions unanswered. Why are our engineers planning to destroy us? If they are not god, then who engineered them? How did David know where to find the engineers of our engineers? Why did David infect Charlie with the alien DNA? Believe me there are too many other questions.
Most of the characters have shown no involvement in the plot. Their acting skills are very weak. It feels they have not shown much interest in playing their characters. Only Rapace & Fassbender had shown some good performances.
However, Ridley had shown some brilliant visual effects. The alien tomb reminded me of the Newgrange mound. The graphical map of the universe in the control room with a humanoid in stasis was quite impressive. The Stereographic 3D has done its role well, but it is just not enough to cover the weak plot. It is nowhere near the original Ridley & James products; Alien and Aliens.