A sloppy Sci-Fi movie with stunning visual effects

Rating: 3/10 (28 December 2012)

Who is truly responsible for human life on earth? Did our ancestors leave hidden messages that last over millennium for us somewhere in the universe? Prometheus, directed by Ridley Scott who is famous for "Alien", one of the most successful Sci-Fi movies that make him who he is now is a type of movie that has great potential to solve all those prolonged and mysterious questions we have been asking ourselves. However, as many of you already know this movie fails logically by ignoring basic science while there are some people who actually enjoy this movie regardless of a number of flaws. I am really surprised to see the gross of this movie compared to a lot of negative reviews. Like every other movie, the score does not matter but your eyes. Depends on how you view the movie, it can be good or bad. Anyway, I write down my thoughts that include biased opinions. Here are things that rarely make sense or should be revised more thoroughly.
*Mass spoilers*
1. The archaeological evidences such as murals found in a deep cave on Earth become vaguely irrelevant to their purpose of space travel. In a word, they are nothing but fillers to make the movie look like Sci- Fi as they don't try to adopt any of them during their investigation.
2. The part where they say human being was created by engineers who live in the remote areas of the universe without mentioning any detailed proofs or religions perplexed me. I know it can be controversial if preaching gets involved, but I think it is way better than having them say "That is what We are going to find out."
3. One of the main characters, David who gets introduced as a soulless robot with high IQ reveals sympathy and secret affection to a female protagonist, Elizabeth who loses her partner, Peter because of David's envy. Do they know what "Soulless" means? I don't think so.
4. Two geologists, Fifield and Millburn get lost despite having the most advanced tracking device that detects by bleeping and flashing in a wide range area from the entrance to the exit with the support of crews monitoring them in the vessel. They could have thought of the other way of getting lost like having their tracking device turned off by some unknown external interference.
5. When Elizabeth tries to return to the vessel with a mysterious head carrying in the regular zipper bag and mighty storm almost blew her away out of the sight part was one of the most shady scenes. I mean it takes place in 2094..could they have come up with more advanced way to keep such a precious thing? Like quickly sending it to the vessel through an electronic transferring system without having to actually carrying it with you like we do nowadays? Or at least she could have hooked the bag to her belt or something. Is it impossible to do that while being able to build the imposing spaceship equipped with highly advanced technology systems?
6. The fact that trillion-dollar project paid by government in search of the origin of human life consists of the most well-built spaceship on Earth that carries less than hundred crews and a very few infantries..actually zero infantry with no powerful robots or machines except flame and razor guns exploring the place where no human have been looked so sloppy and unprepared. Again, it is 2094 for heave sake and all they brought in the spaceship that is big enough to overshadow a village were fancy Cafeteria, gyms, surgical and navigation room? And as there were hardly any battle scenes, I think putting some fighting scenes that involve robots confronting 7-foot-tall aliens would have at least left us some strong impressions. The entire sequence was just one-sided to overpowered Aliens.
7. Last but not least, Elizabeth being gestating by her infected partner, Peter which leads to giving a birth of baby Alien was quite clueless thing to solve. Because Peter becomes extremely pale and cruel-looking while getting his eye color changed into red, and somehow ends up generating a totally different-looking and long-headed creature that looks almost identical to the one that we are familiar with. What is the true relationship between them? Left us puzzled.
Aside from all the aforementioned negative elements , my 3-stars comes from some pros of the movie. First, the realistic cyborg performance by Michael Fassbender who shows fantastic robotic expressions that nobody can imitate along with the mechanical movements. He is a robot in the movie after all.
Second of all, visual effects is beyond the standard quality in terms of creatures and environments. By watching this movie, I can vividly and easily imagine what the future spaceships would really look like and how leather chairs and wooden desks are going be replaced by the glowing aluminum furniture. They sure know how to depict the futuristic design.
Lastly, the ending. Overall, I am a bit disappointed in character development and the plot, but a distant whisper from Ridley Scott whirs through my ears and tells us that "Prometheus 2" which recently got announced will come back in a much better shape in order to make it up for true Sci-Fi movie fans and the rest who are left with an ambiguous mystery.