Brilliant film which confused itself.

Rating: 6/10 (1 June 2012)

Well, Ridley Scott has struck as with another glorious looking film. The actors, aside from the Scottish guy with the Mohawk, were all brilliant. The CGI was stunning and the idea for creation was highly interesting.
There is one large problem that has been annoying me since I went to see it. From trailers I could tell it would have plenty of links with Alien. I liked this and believed the film would develop into a direct prequel. The reality was quite different. Image Prometheus and Alien on two ends of a spectrum. The plot line of this film zig-zagged between the two story ideas. It was an independent film which wanted to be a prequel. The ideas were trying to work with each-other simultaneously which simply didn't work. It SHOULD have spent the first half developing and wrapping up the "engineer" idea before ending with a direct link to Alien; not splitting between the two at the end. Either that or it should have dealt EXCLUSIVELY with the "engineer" idea.
So, although it is clear that Ridley was a bit TOO clingy to Alien, where the idea wasn't linked it was truly superb. The links to Alien just opened up plot-holes and pointless sub-plots which took away from the film overall.
So a visually stunning film executed brilliantly but with a very confused story line behind it. If it was completely independent to Alien it would be 9/10, but it isn't, it's 8/10.