PROMETHEUS: a jumble rehash of sci-fi and other classics, sinks deeper than TITANIC

Rating: 2/10 (1 November 2018)

Ridley Scott, producer and director of PROMETHEUS, has the cheek to copy the stylish interiors of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY; to have a kind of mutant (played by Fassbender) act like a highly scientific BLADE RUNNER who models himself after LAWRENCE OF ARABIA; two completely pointless characters played by Theron and Pearce, who bring to mind FORBIDDEN PLANET; the ship's sole survivor reminded me of Sigourney Weaver's character in ALIEN; the ship's navigation area and crew bring to mind STAR TREK and STAR WARS; and brains blow up inside glass headgear in a manner reminiscent of MARS ATTACKS; and ultimately Scott sets up a suicide scene that sees spaceships sink deeper than he sank TITANIC in 1997. Finally, as the piece de resistance, the last creature we see is a copy of ALIEN, the film that projected Scott as a director.
Frankly, Scott should be heavily fined for copying others' ideas and foisting them on the public as something new. To make matters worse, the film is overlong and does not make any sense at all.
I could kick myself for watching it to the end and I vow to steer clear of it, if ever I set eyes on it. The two stars are for special effetcs and photography.