The film will be coming back to eat it's insides over and over again...

Rating: 7/10 (6 June 2012)

I declare myself an Alien/Giger fan and probably know a bit too much about the universe of these creatures for my own good, but said that I am quite open to new ideas and reboots since this will always happen as long as film is business...
The film as a whole did not quite meet the expectations and could possibly be one of Ridley's downfalls.
Prometheus opens with beautiful photography and a very nice and subtle score (although the old one almost did not have one) that helps build the anticipation, but it is in this very scene where Ridley's initial rule of "not showing the foe until the end" was broken with a front shot of the space jockey with out it's helmet. If it was meant to be a film of discovery it certainly was not true to this idea.
The premise of the film was interesting and could have gone various ways but with a sloppy dialogue, useless scenes and senseless character reactions and arcs it made the whole thing collapse. Noomi Rapace is a great lead, Chalize Theron was practically useless and the whole Weyland ordeal coming into the 3rd act also was. David had to be the stand out of the film, keeps you on edge and his character was very intriguing since it was quite hard to read his real intentions. The film was very familiar and nothing new came out from it and when coming from Ridley Scott, the main pillar of Sci Fi, you expect it to be "different", instead he delivers something so close to Alien 3 and 4 that it's disappointing, specially when the peak of the film (Elizabeth Shaw trapped inside the medical capsule with the Alien) at the end of the 2nd Act is better than the finale.
But not all was bad, what kept me in my seat was the design and photography; although it did not look anything like Alien, I still enjoyed watching it. To be a film that had big expectations it was not big at all, just another way of filling up the pockets of producers and directors with a franchise that has been bled to death. The only reason is that I am giving this one a 7/10 is because I am intrigued with the next films to come, maybe the real film we are all expecting is coming our way...hopefully.
I still enjoyed it and would not stop anyone from watching this film, but beware, by no means sit through the film waiting for it to be like the classic; watch it as a stand alone film, that could possibly be forgotten.