Wish it had a story

Rating: 6/10 (21 August 2012)

Good things first: Great visuals (really), good acting (Fassbender), no teeny-movie, dark and serious atmosphere, entertaining.
Unfortunately the story sucks. I ignore all the very obvious logic problems, it is a SciFi after all.
Yet all persons in the movie are very flat characters, except for the android David. It/He is in fact the only "person" with any dimension. So whenever somebody in the film was in danger, I hardly cared.
The film has a lot philosophical subplots, it seems at first: Relation between Creator and created; Parents and children; God and science; Believe and free will; Death and what is beyond; Emotions and androids; Being human; Life in the universe. A long list, and that is the problem. All these things are mentioned but never treated. It seems to me, they just put all this "stuff" in the script, to make the movie appear (!) to be full of deep thoughts. "God and science" mentioned, OK, make a mark on the list, go to next theme.
And there is this connection to Alien. Well, it adds some thread to the story. But to my mind it is just a marketing instrument. Prometheus the prequel to Alien sells better than Prometheus.