Prometheus

Rating: 7/10 (18 November 2012)

I don't like to write reviews full of hate, but I was disappointed by Prometheus. I love Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, and even Alien vs Predator was alright. Prometheus, meanwhile, was not what I had expected.
It was well made, with a good cast and an alright script. The movie's directing was brilliant - Ridley Scott on top form, but something was lacking. The thing that annoyed me the most about the film was it left so much unanswered. Not just stuff like why did the Engineers want to go to Earth?, and why did David infect Holloway? These questions would be on your mind if you've seen the film.
They can be answered when you think hard enough. It's other questions like why did they a team of the weirdest scientists in the world? How did Sean Harris become an indestructible zombie? and why didn't Michael Fassbender play Rowland instead of Guy Pearce. Annoying, that's what those questions are.
The film isn't that scary, but it is exciting, epic, and at the start, intriguing. The aliens from Alien and it's sequels turn up a bit, and are scarier than the engineer aliens. The Plot is good, and includes space exploration to study a building built by 'Engineers'. Engineers are aliens who, according to Doctors. Shaw and Holloway, created the human race.
The plot is almost thrown out the window once things start going wrong, and the film is almost completely kept together by Ridley Scott's directing and the character of David. David is a robot who looks like a human and watches 1950s films to try and learn what it's like to be a human. David is played by Michael Fassbender, and film shows just how good an actor Fassbender is.
All in all, the film is alright, but could have done with a plot rethink. It does star the most unlikable character in the franchise (including all the Predator and AvP films) played by Charlise Theron, and has brilliant Special effects, but was just missing something.