Truly an unmitigated disappointment

Rating: 2/10 (9 June 2012)

I had high hopes for Prometheus given the direction and production team's pedigrees. Alien in particular has stood the test of time by creating a completely realized and contextualized vision. That is, even when you set a film in a fictionalized environment, the film becomes real when the actors/set/action make sense within that environment...and it's in that requirement where Prometheus fails badly.
The plot doesn't make internal sense unless, as Ripley put it in Aliens, "IQs just dropped sharply" between now and 2089. It's not merely huge plot holes but annoying inconsistencies making you question how the characters could act/think that way...and many of these holes/questions arise through various forced homages to the original Alien movie.
Sure, the film has stunning visuals and lots of excellent special effects (I saw the film in 3D IMAX) but they're wasted on a fractured plot. Not a single person clapped at the movie's end in a sold-out 7:30pm seating. Sadly, Prometheus' fire has been extinguished.