Brilliant - Exactly what I hoped for and more!

Rating: 9/10 (3 June 2012)

I think a lot of people are being very harsh with Prometheus - especially official critics. It's a subtle work of genius, with a lot of unanswered questions - and I think that sort of "unknowing" really gets on people's nerves. They want to know everything, have it spoon-fed to them, and not consider the answers to the film's questions themselves.
The film is excellent. I am a HUGE fan of the Alien and Aliens films, and I was really hoping this would follow on in terms of quality, suspense, acting, atmosphere and intrigue. In my honest opinion, it delivered. I felt the acting was brilliant, most notably Michael Fassbender performing so excellently as David 8, the android assistant on board Prometheus. Other actors faired well, delivering believable characters, but with not enough character development in some, but that can also add to the mystery!
Soundtrack was amazing. Camera work was amazing. Atmosphere was spectacular. Suspense was, too say the least, immense. (Can't believe people saying it's not suspenseful!)
So many different, interesting themes popped up - genetic engineering, space, the universe, humanities roots. I really think a lot of thought went into the back-story, and how it all tied together. The fact that not everything was explained just helps build the feeling of eternal strive for knowledge that we humans share, and Noomi Rapace and her partner shared.
My head is constantly reeling with new questions, and self conjured answers, and that's what, for me, makes a great film. I don't want to spoil too much. But I'd just like to say, before people criticize details such as "walking around after performing a cesarean" is implausible - remember this: it's Sci-Fi. You don't know what's available to them. Nothing's impossible in FICTION.
Just enter the cinema with an open mind. Enjoy it for what it is, not "what it could have been." It breaks a mold. It goes where nobody has dared gone before. Aliens creating humans, but in a film?! WOAH, too far fetched? No! It's science fiction at its best. Ridley Scott is a genius. -- I appreciate this is a bit rambly, but it's great, watch it and you won't be disappointed!