Flaws that good action and visuals cannot hide, and I'm not talking about Zac Synder

Rating: 6/10 (25 July 2017)

The first time I watched Prometheus was in middle school. I did not know a lot about movies then, but just from the first thirty minutes, I was bored a lot by the story and stopped caring. Rewatching it today, I indeed found something worth appreciation that was missed by my twelve-year-old self, but overall it is still a very dull story and has very weak theme. The greatest problem of the story is its storytelling. I cannot care less about almost the entire first two acts. It does not even have attractive futuristic things that many sci-fi films desperately (yet usually quite successfully) put in the first act. Character design is another problem. The main character is the only one I cared. I can see how her faith gradually loses and I get the symbolism, which is good. But all the other characters are either so archetypical (the grumpy) or characterless (the Asian). Hell the characters are so bad I can hardly remember any names. Its actions and special effects, along with the entire visual style, are beautiful. Character design, visually speaking, is quite impressive. In conclusion, I watched the film only after watch Alien. So if one has seen and been obsessed with the entire franchise, this might be a great movie. But for me, a lot of things need extra explanation, and the storytelling does not work.