Terrible film, excellent execution.

Rating: 4/10 (1 June 2012)

Let me first state that I have never written a review on IMDb before, but this film was so god damn awful that I just had to write something to explain to other viewers my reasoning.
Being a longtime fan of the Alien franchise, I honestly had very high hopes for this film, and even went to view the mid night screening in hopes of Ridley Scott could redeem the franchise after the AVP franchise butchered it. I was sadly mistaken.
Let me state that as far as cinematics and special effects go, this is by no means a bad movie. The 3D, ships, creatures, landscapes, weather explosions and all other special effects are by far some of the best I've ever seen in a Sci-fi film, and if wasn't for the god-awful plot, I daresay I would have been completely immersed.
As for the story, this film does about as much to explain the Ridley Scott Xenomorph universe as the AVP franchise itself does, and certainly makes a lot less sense than the latter in attempting to do so.
The characters are completely bland, easily forgettable, by the end of the movie I walked out only remembering about three of their names thankful that it was over. You will not care who dies, and the characters seem to act completely random, freaking out when they don't need to, and acting incredibly calm in tense situations.
The plot is absolute garbage, Weylen corp makes an appearance again, obviously only along for the ride for some form of personal gain, that much is made clear in the first 20 minutes. The first of the two 'big twists' are revealed within the opening sequence, and the second is figurable within the first 40 mins.
Now for the rest of the nonsense plot. When Prometheus touches down, they immediately locate the base of what they're looking for (visually mind you, no radio signals or anything to guide them, they 'just happen' to land right above where they need to be) then they find a weird gene morphing goo which turns some earth worms into powerful boa constrictors, yet also causes the engineer's heads to explode, yet also turns the crew into rabid killers, yet also impregnates the main heroine with a face sucker. So which is it?
No attempt is made to explain this new bio weapon, and it's effects are completely inconsistent throughout the movie. The 'tense moments' a virtually non existent and the film does nothing to draw you in and captivate its audience. To be fair, by the end, I didn't give a damn if any of them survived.
Then finally when the last engineer is found in cryo, he turns on the cast and tries to wipe out humanity by flying the bio weapon to earth with no explanation as to their motives at all. Why go through all that trouble of creating a race, then getting them to come find you if you're just going to wipe them out?
Then there's the final scene in which the face sucker (now about 7 feet tall) impregnates the last engineer, and the Xenomorph queen bursts from its chest fully grown. This seemed more like a tribute to the squealing fanboys rating this film 9/10 than actually making any attempt at explaining their origins.
I'm still holding out for a sequel to better explain this load of garbage, but trust me, don't waste your time. Wait for the blu-ray.