looks good but ent no classic

Rating: 4/10 (8 July 2012)

spoiler alert
its like most other films that try to tell us they are the next big thing, that we're gonna love it, in end they seem to only disappoint. like that god awful Avatar, now Prometheus A film that yes i got caught up in the hype of, but it was hard not to. it looked amazing and the discussions i had with friends on possible plots and story twist were great.
o.k about the film; it looked amazing. the acting was great, apart from the extra crew members. shaw was amazingly beautiful. it had potential. but sadly that is all, it had no substance, no clear direction and was truly just the first film of three. you know like pirates of the Caribbean 2, just purely there to set up the next films and this shouldn't of happened as Scott kept saying this is a film of its own, not part of alien. there was no real direction in this film, it could've just been the beginning then cut to the end because, people who have seen it camon the bit in between was throw away, there was no need for any of it.take the three or four main bits in it, any of which could have been made into a film on its own, could have supported this film on its own but what does Scott do? throw them away.
1. Charlie gets infected, could have built a story around that, what happens they kill him right away.
2. shaw gets pregnant, could have built the whole film around that, what happens? she cuts it out and gets on with things, u don't see it again til the end where its grown for some reason and don't get me started on the fact that oh lucky there is a machine on board that can do surgery and oh no one bothers to follow her and say hey you cant do that she just hits two people the goes for surgery then catches up with them later even though I'm sure someone on a ship that would probably have scanners or at least cameras on it would go hey she hit them and went for an op.
3. that other guy gets transformed. yeah yeah hes at the door, hey it looked good with his legs all up round his head but what happens? he just gets up kills all the extras that we don't need and haven't met then after a wee while gets killed. oh he was a wee bit harder to kill but got killed. what about making him run around killing them all one by one terrorising them?
4. OK four is a two part annoyance. part one; i agree with a lot of people that have done reviews on it that Weyland on board was rubbish and added nothing to the film, what happened you ask? he gets killed. pretty fast. so thats Charlie infected then killed right away, pointless. shaw pregnant then cuts it out right away, pointless. that dude turns into a monster, oh hey it takes them a couple more bullets but guess what? they kill him right away, pointless. now weylands on board, why? pointless thats why, filler for what is part one of a trilogy. OK part two annoyance; the jockey guys, wake one up and he's no too happy he'll just kill you, all that waiting and ends up they're just grumpy buggers, pointless. oh and just rip David's head off. yeah and by the next one she probably have put it back on or why else take his body with you? all that build up of what the new android would be like, would he be bad like ash or good like bishop, a bit of both in end. like they couldn't decide themselves. i thought he lets give it a go of making him the hero, everyones expecting him to be worse than ash. oh and Vickers? pointless
we as viewers wanted answers and we were promised them, i think thats fair to say, but all we got were pointless things that happened to fill the first part of a three part film.
now as i said at start i does have its good points, David is great, shaw too, and their wee thing at the end setting things up for a buddy movie i thought was good. i think the subtle hints from David that he is learning and may in fact have a soul were really good. i like the fact that she isn't going back to earth and is going to their planet but then that just shows that this film was just a pointless way of getting to that point, yes it makes you think what the hell is the next one gonna be like, but then i remember the disappointment of this one and think they'll just mess it up again. even though they are going to their planet in the next one they still need to go back to the one in this film as they haven't actually shown the jockey in the ship from alien yet.