Prometheus? More like Poopmetheus...

Rating: 1/10 (4 June 2012)

Never mind Von Daniken's "Mansions of the Gods", principal influences seem to have been the computer game Dead Space ... and a Johnny Walker commercial.
OK, so Dead Space itself draws heavily on numerous sources, not just Scott's "Alien" (John Carpenter's "the Thing", "Event Horizon") but it is a computer game, and you kinda expect that, they're not really meant to be cinematic masterpieces (though, compared to this movie, it is one) .... when were virus nano machines that could infect a host and mutate it in to, I dunno let's call them "necromporphs" shall we(?), ever part of the Aliens universe? Also stolen from Dead Space is quasi religious belief that grows up around an ancient artifacts (or "markers" as they say in Dead Space) that gives clues to our alien forefathers. Unlike Dead Space's creepy cult "unitology", which are clearly a sideswipe at Scott's own religion Scientology, Prometheus's religious seem to wear crosses in a religion that resembles Christianity/belief in God/belief we were created by aliens/who the floodle knows, even this wasn't thought through enough to make sense.
Scientologists aren't known for taking disrespect well, maybe that's what this is all about, making sure the rumoured Dead Space film project never gets off the ground. Yeah I like that theory, at least it would explain why dross like this ever gets made.
You can see the Johnny Walker commercial on Youtube, just google "Johnny Walker Human", it does in a minute what Prometheus fails to do in however many minutes it drags on for.
Other than that: extremely bad science, implausible leaps in logic by characters, levels of stupidity and poor decision making that would make the dimwitted denizens of "Friday the 13th Part 17" blush, several obvious internal inconsistencies .... I could go on. The science was so bad, 10 minutes in I was thinking, "O M G what have they done?". Androids don't have souls, eh, so everything is meaningless to them is it? W T F ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?!?!?
I also object being shown clips in publicity that are not in the movie they are pretending to advertise.