Big Disappointment

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2012)

Let me start off by saying this movie is extremely visually stunning. The scenery and graphics was sooo beautiful in the beginning. Now to talk about the movie...it was a big big let down.
Prometheus had a lot of plot holes that appeared throughout the movie. All I can say is the movie consisted primarily of "grunts, screams, shouts, anger, curse-words, and stupidity". Now, I definitely do not blame Ridley because he did his job, believe it or not. I blame the writers because they f**ked up this movie so much with the script. And then we have the cast, a bunch of random-picked people that really do not fit their "job description". Hats off to Michael Fassbender (David) because he was the only character that did his part very well. I also did enjoy seeing Idris Elba as the ship captain. Inside Prometheus, Fassbender who is the android in this movie, plays basketball, learn different languages, cooks, etc just to pass time while the other crew members were in hyper-sleep (2 years). Just seeing Fassbender alone in that ship provided a dark, eerie surrounding similar to the Alien movies, when all you hear is the ship humming and loud echoes. The camera angles were done well, another thanks to Ridley for his excellent directory.
One of the geologist, Fifield (the guy with red hair & tattoo) who helped with the mapping of the temple decides to run off after seeing one of the "aliens" and gets lost inside the temple, and later dies after encountering an alien cobra. How pathetic. His partner tries to pet the cobra and seems extremely calm when after all, they ARE in an Alien territory, yet the guy is calm as hell. Seriously? Towards the end of the movie, I felt it was rushed. Many other reviews have already mentioned things that the cast in this movie did that seemed so ridiculous, I'm not going to bother typing over again. I will say the movie ended with a hint of another sequel. Overall, this movie was silly but with modern day CGI, it was an okay sci-fi movie.
PS: For those who wrote in their review that the scene with Shaw performing surgery on her stomach and then walked away just fine (without pain) - let me stop you guys right there. If you noticed, she's been consistently injecting herself with some type of serum (morphine perhaps) to ease the pain. She WAS IN PAIN - please look carefully. Yes the surgery may have seemed really fast, but towards the beginning that machine that did the surgery was said to be $$$. Clearly, you can see Shaw was staggering every other step after the procedure, so no she didn't walk away fine.