It's a space cobra!

Rating: 6/10 (22 April 2013)

The movie landscapes and scenery in this movie look beautiful. However is really difficult to judge this movies without relating it at all with the Alien franchise. I know Ridley Scott has said several times that this is not a prequel to Alien (1979), there are a lot of similarities that leads me to compare Prometheus with other movies of the franchise.
I did like the whole, theological discussion, and the whole deal about choosing what to believe. It was very interesting the way they try to draw a parallel between David and his relationship with humans, and humans and their interaction with their engineers. They both are looking for answers. There is a moment where David asks Holloway: "Why did you make us?" and he answers "because we can". It seems is the same way with engineers and humans.
The big problem arrives towards the final act of the movie. There is too much stuff going on, and they left way too many questions unanswered. I do like when movies do not give you all the answers (like Alien) but at the same time, they are trying to tell a story, and if they left too many gaps in the plot, the story feels incomplete, making it disappointing.
Two thing that could have easily been fixed:

The way Millburn and Fifield get infected is just dumb. They just look utterly stupid. If you compare it to a very similar scene, such as the one where Kane gets infected in Alien, the impression it gives me is that in Alien (1979) the driving factor was human curiosity, in Prometheus Millburn just look stupid.

Vickers did not need to runaway in a straight line. The scene could have looked more clever.

However at the end of the day, the movie was entertaining enough, and brought some interesting details about the Alien franchise.
Score (7)