Trying to be smarter than it is

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2012)

I'm sorry to say I was a bit disappointed. In my opinion this movie should fall somewhere between a 7 and an 8 out of ten, not bad but not nearly as good as it could have been.
This film lacked the ambiance and suspense of Alien. Somehow Ridley failed to recreate his original mood even though it looks like he tried. Beyond that, Prometheus tries to be a film with an intelligent plot, but it spends too much time on gratuitous visuals and gross "shock value" stuff to really make the story work. I don't mind suspending a little bit of reality in a film, but there's a limit, especially when the film is trying to take itself seriously.
I think that a film like this should be mostly about the aliens, not about the people. Yes you need humans to give every sci-fi movie some connection for us and to give it emotion, but it's the time the director spends with the aliens and the malevolence you imply about them that give the film its intellect and (in some cases) its creepiness.
The acting was pretty good, the visuals were spectacular and the aliens were enticingly interesting (just wish we learned more about them). But this film will not leave a mark on history like its predecessors.