Wants to be clever but isn't clever enough. - SPOILERS -

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 2012)

There were obviously 2 ways to go, a clever 'origin of species' with a few nasty surprises, or a bug hunt. Scott chose the later despite, I suspect, most of the audience wanting more of an 'Aliens' type film (there really has only been one 'bug hunt' film). Well, that's fine, I'm reasonably intelligent, so was happy to get on board Prometheus and see what happens.
Hm. Well, do we take it that human kind was created by mistake, a strand of DNA not being destroyed by magic potion? Perhaps. So, they've realised their mistake and have decided to do away with us with an hugely unnecessarily elaborate mutagenic killing machine, creating in the process a fantastically hostile planet (earth) full of very nasty things indeed. Maybe. Whatever their reason, that is their purpose, it seems.
Right. So give us some kind of meaning. And, while you're about it, can you please provide some kind of explanation as to how the ship stumbled across a launching pad for all those innumerous ships. And how those paintings managed to identify their solar system, despite it seeming to be the case that the Engineers left before their creation. And how the nasty soon-to-become-Aliens managed to escape at the same time at each of the launching pods, derailing all of their efforts? And of all the ways of getting rid of human kind, why choose such a dangerous one? And why wait so long? And why did the crewman go mental having been sprayed with acid? How was he able to breathe in that atmosphere?
Now, I see what he was trying to do, and I know this board is littered with people who will blindly follow this film and not accept criticism of it, but that, sadly, is their problem. It was just disappointing.
Oh, and who is to say that Vickers wasn't a robot?