The only good thing about Prometheus is how forgettable it is

Rating: 2/10 (17 April 2015)

The science and protocol are nonsensical, the characters one-dimensional, the directing seems to lack any sense of direction, and the only surprising thing about the plot is how it manages to get cheesier and more predictable with each new development.
Given the quality of the script and direction, it's hard to blame the actors for their haphazard performances, but the only one displaying believable emotions is Michael Fassbender, and he plays a robot. Idris Elba is competent as usual, but his character is such a cliché (token black captain gett'n too old fo' dis sheet) that I was half expecting him to pull off his face at some point to reveal Kirk Lazarus.
Even the over-hyped visual effects look like something from the previous decade, too sharp, lacking fluidity and subtlety, and with an overall attitude of "look at me, I'm an expensive CG shot, I took ages to render" (which is fine in a film like Pacific Rim, but not when you're trying to create a believable environment in which to tell a story) or "look at me, I'm clearly a practical effect because I'm covered in goo and all I can do is wiggle back and forth".
And one has to wonder if it was really so hard to find an 80 or 90 year old actor, instead of giving the role of Peter Weyland to a 44 year old with his face covered in so much rubber that it comes across as a misguided homage to Yogurt from Spaceballs.
Ridley Scott's attempt at emulating George Lucas and performing a "murder by prequel" on his own brainchild is just as successful (and seems born of the same roots - too much money, too few restrictions, too thick a bubble of sycophancy), but never manages to reach the same spectacular levels of fail. While Lucas' prequels (and "remasterings") are so bad they're almost funny, Scott's prequel is just flat and forgettable. Without the connection to Alien or the $125 million budget, it would be just a bad movie.
Blade Runner beware.