Does not live up to high expectations

Rating: 3/10 (10 June 2012)

I went to watch Prometheus with a lot of expectation. The prospect of watching Ridley Scott's latest that too in Imax and 3d was riveting in itself. The movie was disappointing in many respects. I wanted to watch Prometheus in spite of all the negative feedback it got hammered with because of Scott's reputation as a storyteller. What I got in the bargain was a movie which begins with an interesting premise but goes nowhere. The motives of some of the characters were not fleshed out. Why did David, the android put the black gooey stuff in the drink which he made for Dr. Holloway? If David is indeed an android and beyond human emotions why did he feel the urge to warn Dr. Elizabeth of impending danger at the climax and why does he convince her to rescue him? What is Charlize Theron's agenda? The captain of the ship is shown heroic but also has a high libido and has no qualms in proposing to lay his boss's daughter. There is an engineer, a geologist but again their purpose of being included on the mission remains clouded. They appear goofy at best with no semblance of intelligence. The geologist says, "I love rocks". The movie pretends to be serious but turns out to be nothing but a good vs. evil drama. All this talk of "where we come from", "who created us", "what is our purpose" remain unanswered, as they should be. Scott seems to have slipped big time in trying to make a magnum opus. Admittedly the movie has stunning visuals and has some compelling on screen events like the machine operating on Dr. Elizabeth or the holographic galaxy forming in the cave But the movie lacks content. Scott keeps the back door open with the promise of a sequel. I shudder at the thought. I barely managed to stay awake in this 2 hour 'saga'.