Copy-pasting past successes does not make up a new success....

Rating: 5/10 (23 February 2016)

I am a big fan of Ridley Scott and I adore sci-fi; so I went to see Prometheus with huge expectations. I cannot state enough my disappointment when I walked out...this movie is a bum, it is a collage of previous director's cult movies, a lot from Alien up to some touches of Blade Runner. Leaving aside the fact that "quoting" himself is not a very elegant thing to do, it seems as if Scott thinks that pulling together visual and sound references from his past successes will make up another one now. Well, it does not.... I smelled this could be the case from the very beginning of the movie: the way the title appears on screen is the same visual device used in Alien, up to the very end (Dr Show's breathing is a shameless copy-paste of Ripley's). Well, one could say, these are licenses that a director like Ridley Scott can allow himself...yeah, well, maybe if the script would be so strong to stand out as a piece of great and original filmography; which it does not, the plot is so evanescent, so predictable to be unbearably boring.