Sci-fi disappointment of the year

Rating: 4/10 (9 June 2012)

I like a good sci-fi and I'm quite happy to go along with amazing stuff like traveling faster than light, teleportation and miraculous feats of medicine. I just sit back and go along with the story. If there is a story, that is! I'm giving Prometheus 4 stars for two reasons. One, it has some pretty amazing 3D CG and secondly, because I've given 3 stars to a movie before, which was even worse... As I said, I'm usually happy to go along with miracles of science, but in this case, the science is unbelievably bad. As if it was written by somebody who had ABSOLUTELY no understanding of even the most basic scientific and engineering concepts. I won't even dwell on the details, it's so pathetic. The story is so cliché laden that it is painful to watch. These clichés are not even modern ones but straight out of the worst low budget 1950's sci-fi TV series. This movie has nothing to say. No message and barely any story. The only original contribution made in the film is that the alien spaceship looks like a giant flying turd. I haven't seen that one before. So, it's annoying, inconsistent, unbelievable and think of any other words in the English dictionary starting with un-, im-, de-, dis- and you'll get the picture. I think Ridley Scott is coasting and just wanted to cash in with this movie. It's all the more disappointing because it was obviously a big budget movie but somehow they couldn't scrape together a half-decent script. One has to have the memory of a fish, not to be annoyed by the inconsistencies and discontinuities in the story. Acting was a bit of a mixed bag and directing is amateurish. I won't blame the usually good, big name actors (apart from taking their roles in the first place) for not being able to do too much with their role, given the poor script and the bad directing. Prometheus has some very fine visual effects and CG and yes, 3D, but all these not a good movie make... My advice if you wish to take it is to save your money and don't go to the movies to see Prometheus. If still interested, wait till it appears on TV. An utter disappointment for me.