Ridiculous

Rating: 1/10 (19 February 2018)

Great visual and sound effects. Mockable writing and story. The spaceship itself predates the original "Alien" film but is more advanced than the Nostromo and more luxurious than the Titanic. The characters operate on the basis that "the Engineers" created human beings from themselves as a bio-weapon, and pretend to establish this premise as a fact upon discovering our DNA is identical. The movie doesn't really establish it as a fact or provide a good basis for the hypothesis. The audience is just expected to accept as "facts" things that don't make sense even within the context of the story--like the alien egg and drone in the Solaco. Given that as the basis, the Engineers created humankind as a biological weapon, lost control of their project, developed the "alien" monster, and lost control of that project. The behavior of the undeveloped characters in "Prometheus" is inexplicably stupid and random. Doctors and researchers have no caution in an unknown, alien environment; no concern for microbes, contagion, unknown life forms; robot David intentionally poisons Dr. Charlie for no apparent reason; Dr. Elizabeth is vigorously active immediately following major abdominal surgery that completely severed her muscles in her core and went into her endometrial cavity. The crew heroically converts story to a suicide mission and goes out with bad lines. The audience knows the scene, not because it goes in this movie, but because we've seen it in so many other movies, we've got the facial expressions, gestures, and lines memorized. The worst thing about this installation is the introduction of the inexplicably melodramatic, emotional android that is carried into the next installation, "Covenant," and ruins that film, too.