This film should be mandatory viewing in all film schools

Rating: 6/10 (18 June 2012)

This is a great example of bad editing. I have read a lot of the reviews here and I agree with most of them. But its not the script that is the problem. It is clearly the lack of editing prowess. This film was undoubtedly much longer and was hacked down to allow for more theater play. Chopping a film for view-time happens to all films we see. The original Alien had something like 4 hours of footage that was reduced, with total mastery by Terry Rawlings, down to its theater run time. I have seen directors cuts from most of Scott's films and they are bad. Scott seems to overshoot and expect somehow to be saved by his editors. This time he f'd up bad. His editors obliterated plot, character development, and pacing. What is being shown in theaters now is basically a two hour movie trailer for the next film????? Perhaps a directors cut will contain the whole bit. If you are a fan of Scott's Alien and Bladerunner you are really a fan of Terry Rawlings. A good editor makes a film look like more while showing less. A bad editor can take the best story and turn it into nonsense. - Not that Prometheus was the best story.