Perhaps Ridly Scott is not here to make friends; maybe he's just here to make money.

Rating: 2/10 (12 November 2012)

At the time of this writing, Prometheus has a 7.3 rating after over 200,000 votes. I am in absolute shock over this fact. This means hundreds of thousands of people would had to have given this movie a pretty good rating. I understand when a movie first comes out, a bunch of phony IMDb users instantly jump in with some 10-star ratings to try to boost the movie's score, so of course we have to wait at least a few months to see where the score settles before we can take it seriously. Perhaps these people giving the phony ratings and reviews are the folks involved with the film-making and their friends and relatives? Or perhaps they're paid? I don't know. But either way, it would only account for maybe a couple thousand ratings at best. Right? Not hundreds of thousands. I've gotta say, I'm a little bit angry at whoever is responsible for artificially boosting this film's rating, for tricking me into watching this horribly unintelligent POS.
How can this awful movie have a 7.3 rating? I've dug seven pages deep into the reviews and didn't find any positive ones. How far would I have to dig before finding any positive ones? ARE there any positive ones? Just what is going on here!? How did this film get a 7.3 rating? Robots? Are cleverly written robots creating accounts from various proxy servers and navigating through IMDb's interface well enough to rate this movie? Anyway, I've wasted enough time describing my shock and confusion about the rating. Here's my review: This film is like Battlefield Earth, but with good special effects and cinematography. Don't get me wrong; it's far better than Battlefield Earth - just for the CGI and cinematography alone. But the plot and writing are just as stupid. Seriously.
At first I just furrowed my brow a bit and mumbled some minor complaints as the first few nonsensical parts came up: "Is this guy supposed to be somehow seeing this lady's dream? I can't tell. Is this blurry scene that was edited together like a corny flashback in a bad B-movie supposed to be a dream? What's going on?" "Why is that one guy so hostile and talking about how he's 'not here to make friends' because he's apparently 'just here to make money'? What? Don't these astronauts know each other? Shouldn't they be somewhat professional?" But I was still expecting a good film at that point. After all, this is the Alien prequel, directed by Ridley Scott.
But before long, I was no longer just furrowing my brow in confusion; I was yelling at the screen as I watched a supposed scientist decide to remove his helmet in an alien atmosphere: "Why would you take your helmet off??!!! Are you kidding me??!! YOU'RE ON AN ALIEN PLANET YOU IDIOT!!!" Then...get this....I kid you not: The other scientists - scientists that are presumably respected enough in their fields to be selected to travel across the universe on a super-important mission, and who were just acting distraught at the idea that their idiot colleague was about to take his helmet off - decide to take their helmets off too! Apparently all these scientists decided it would be okay because nothing bad happened to the first idiot after TWO SECONDS of having his helmet off. What?!!!!! From there it just got worse. Idiots dipping their gloveless fingers into bubbling, organic, alien goo (that had maggots wiggling around in it for no reason)... an idiot trying to get cuddly with a threatening-looking cobra/lizard thing (the same idiot that up until that point was scared to death of the place and jumping out of his skin every time he heard a peep or saw a shadow)...I could go on forever... The countless, blatantly-obvious plot-holes, contradictions, and the constant, extremely-unrealistic, idiotic behavior of the characters make this one a very difficult one to sit through.
Seriously. This movie is really bad. Seriously. I'm going to pretend this never happened. There are only two Alien movies.