The Usual Clichés

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2012)

Prometheus is a decent movie despite the usual clichés that have been in every single Alien-type movie since the original Alien. You have to have the scientists that don't want armed protection, you have to have the scientist who is going to risk everyone's life by trying to obtain a specimen, you have the android, you have the company who is willing to let everyone die for their own ends and you have the same type of dark atmosphere inside the alien areas. The movie has nice visuals, but the let-down is the characters. There is very little characterization and you really do not care about the members of the Prometheus. There were a few things, that left out, would have allowed the movie to mature into a nice discovery piece: the scientist given a drink with alien DNA that just happens to change him (where you stomach acids would have killed it), the same scientist just after drinking impregnates his girlfriend (no need to have the Alien growing inside someone again), the android who takes orders that would jeopardize humanity, and the rich individual who puts all the lives at risk for his own immortality. The negative clichés take what could have been a 9/10 type movie and move it into a 7/8 sci-fi adventure.