Gods save us from Prometheuses like this one !

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2013)

Almost 700 external reviews of such a failure ! Lately, renowned professionals are seriously discussing lame-brained movies with visuals which we used to label "breathtaking", while mainstream movie theatres long ago became a place for brainwashing audience with a flood of meaningless, often wantonly disgusting CGIs. No wonder "Avatar" got almost 6OO reviews. Call it the triumph of form over substance, or symptom of deep cultural crisis ... - art it ain't.
Ridley Scott is the man who in the seventies/eighties gave us one small but truly old-master-like canvas ("The Duellists") and two groundbreaking sci-fi spectacles ("Alien" and "Blade Runner") ; after that his creative power quickly waned never to be recovered. Recently he, stealing from himself, Kubrick etc., comes up with another feast for the image-devourers, "Prometheus".
Surely the strategy of passive resistance is what could save us from such unwanted gifts. What's the point in judging M.Fassbender's performance in a silly role in an even sillier film ? Or in wondering what goes on in heads of some loathsome couple of adolescently Faustian researchers ? So better let me stop writing ; there are greater pleasures, e.g., to pretend I never saw "Prometheus", and to read what someone like Mr. Chaw has to say about it- he seldom disappoints me.