Not good enough

Rating: 6/10 (10 June 2012)

This film is beautifully shot and 3D is brilliant. Movie starts with the sprinkling of lot of characters into the mix giving you a hope of very interesting dynamics to come. Movie does a good job for the first hour where the build up is pretty good. however it just stops there. Most characters are left under-developed in the favor of concentrating more on the central subject of the film ie. "Who are we and who created us". But as the result it creates a hollow plot, where you don't feel for characters and the fundamental question starts to look unimportant. Frankly actors like Idris Alba and Charlize Theron are wasted. Even in the final moments, where characters are required to make the fundamental decisions, it fails to stir the right emotions in us. Leaving us with a feeling of sort of anti-climax and unfulfilled expectations. Most of the questions raised in the beginning are left unanswered, clearly suggesting that this will be a beginning of many more follow up films. I think that setting is large and premise if superb and that forthcoming films do a better job that this one. Prequels are harder because you have to build up a story which holds good in itself but also logically adds up, leading to the ending which is already a part of the film made earlier. Having said that i want to give an example of "Rise of Planet of Apes", which does such a great job of making not only an interesting film but also a perfect Prequel.
I am going with the 6/10. 6 is for near perfect job of everything other than holding the plot line and the character development.