Don't expect anything superior or even equal to the thrill and suspense of Alien, and you wont be disappointed

Rating: 7/10 (8 June 2012)

OK so nothing is ever going to match the tense, atmospheric original Alien movie, and as a huge fan of this masterpiece, i went in to see Prometheus without expecting it to rise to the occasion. So there are some nice links to the Alien movie, like the Alien ship, the way it lies on the landscape at the finale, and the position of the driver which all matches the way John Hurt found him in the Original. I also liked the fact that we see humanity as just being created by a superior intelligence,and this scene is captured nicely. All in all, i agree that there is little in character performance, there are 17 crew but aside from performances from Michael Fassbender as the genteel, fair-haired android David, and a sprinkling of romance between Dr Shaw and Dr Holloway there really is nothing else.Theron is awful,cardboard! Too many unanswered questions, and perhaps the need for a sequel to fill in the blanks...what happens to David and Shaw? Why/How did the Alien evolve into the xenomorph we all know from the franchise? Put into the plot gaping flaws (if its -23 degrees out, why remove a helmet and see no icy breath, how can you run with staples holding in an incision from a minor surgery minutes before).. But despite all this i enjoyed watching Ridley's direction, you MUST see the movie on the biggest screen, i saw it IMAX 3-D and it worked wonderfully. So don't go expecting anything superior or even equal to the thrill and suspense of Alien, and you wont be disappointed.