What a ripoff!

Rating: 3/10 (24 August 2012)

First off I give it 3 out of 10 and that is ONLY for being a kind of prequel to Aliens, but for the rest the movie does not measure up to anything. The good and interesting part of the movie is the actual contact with an intelligent alien, but that contact is so short that it might just have been the whole movie - all 15 seconds of it. Now for the bad part: the movie like many recent flicks is over-hyped. Prometheus brings nothing new to the table: a crew of misfits and egoistic idiots which eventually leads to infighting, 80% of the movie taking place in "dark spooky caves", scary moments and a lot of searching with flashlights (I guess in the future a hand-held flashlight is as far as technology is capable of evolving), slime on the walls and secretive alien writings on murals, random alien creature attack and (of course) a triumph of (relatively speaking) technologically backwards humans against a super-intelligent alien. At one point the filmmakers just got so lazy that one alien was almost like a cobra without a head that has a strange resemblance to a male genitalia and another was just a plain old squid, I kid you not. They might have thrown in a bat and a spider for good measure, would be equally absurd.
If you are a sci-fi fan, you will probably manage to link 90% of everything found in Prometheus to another movie. This kinda reminds me of Cabin In The Woods - just like that movie Prometheus manages to suck itself like a leech to a number of different other movies "borrowing" them dry of ideas. The actors are boring and most lines predictable, so that also adds to the staleness of the movie. I was expecting at least SOME fresh ideas, but this movie is a letdown plain and simple. The best way to describe it would be if one can imagine opening a very old can of soup with a brand new label. Contents are stale, and the "novelty" of it is just the label alone.