Great visuals, moronic writing

Rating: 4/10 (28 October 2012)

After watching the film, it came as no shock to me that the writer of Lost (Lindelof) had a hand in the writing of this much hyped prequel to the Alien franchise. Lindelofs writing and plots are disjointed and incomprehensible, and this is exquisitely demonstrated in Prometheus.
Lindelof being paired with the genius of Scott is like having a Michelin Star chef preparing a banquet with ingredients from Lidl. The resulting production is a beautiful shot but ultimately nonsensical mess.
The plot starts off with grand aspirations, making contact with visitors from another world, but quickly descends into a story about a bunch of morons (or alleged 'Scientists') fumbling around an alien planet looking for its inhabitants with total disregard for common sense.
There are so many problems (that many here have covered) with the nonsensical behaviour of these 'scientists' that one can only assume the writers have never met a scientist, have never watched a program about anything that involves science or even know what science is.
If a real group of Scientists were to travel to an Alien planet that they suspected of harbouring intelligent life, they wouldn't fly into the atmosphere unannounced and take a stroll around like a bunch of sightseers. They would spend weeks or even months (or longer) studying the planet from a distance - yet our intrepid bunch or half-wits fly straight on in, disembark and start fumbling around like teenagers at their first make-out party.
The writing is abysmal.. The behaviour of the characters is totally illogical and totally inconsistent with anyone with any common sense, let alone Scientists, who are notoriously down to earth, meticulously methodical and consistently cautious - not these guys, they are like a group of gung-ho dimwits who do things like stick electrical probes into the decapitated head of an alien just for kicks, only to see the most important find in human history inexplicable explode.
Then there's the reactions of these people.. Scientists who are afraid of a body, a captain who ignores his crews please for help instead choosing to go to bed, half the crew ignoring a woman with an 8 inch wound across her stomach covered in blood, the entire crew being utterly underwhelmed by the most important discovery in human history, the stupid-duo scientists who try baby-talk with the first living alien species they encounter (yet these are the two idiots afraid of the body), then the suicidal pilots who's demeanour stays exactly the same even though they've just realised they're all gonna die.
And inevitably the writers had to involve religion.. From the off it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. The existence of aliens, even ones who potentially spawned us has nothing to do with religion, particularly amongst scientists, who are almost exclusively atheist - yet religious symbols, religious references and talk of the afterlife is rife in this film. And note to the writers, abiogenesis and evolution do not cancel each other out, so why would Darwinism need to be discounted, by a scientist of all people?? I literally could go on all night..plot holes and stand-out plot devices aplenty throughout.
This film attempts profundity, but the only sense of wonder that I was left with was why would a woman and her psychopathic robot choose to fly to yet another alien planet full of aliens who hate humans?
Good points: Fassbender, the scenery, the special effects (which were impressive even by todays standards) and the idea (even though it was appallingly executed)
Bad points: Everything else, especially the inevitable sequel(s).