The right movie but the wrong time and too much stuffing.

Rating: 5/10 (2 May 2017)

Prometheus is lacking. That much is obvious. This is the movie that should have been made instead of Aliens (I love Aliens but it makes little sense as a sequel to Alien) but 30 years earlier. Ridley quite obviously wanted to make an Ancient Astronauts film and he obviously had quite a few ideas better realized in the Blade Runner universe stuck in his mind when making this film. It really shows. The main crime committed in Prometheus is the lack of focus. It's packed with great ideas and concepts. Ideas and concepts that would have been much better served as their own movies.
I was quite satisfied with not knowing why the Engineers went back to kill us. What did bother me was how uninterested in getting that answer I was. The film is asking too many questions. We're asked to care about more things than the films running time has to potential to explore while also being an adventure/horror film. So the problem isn't with not getting any answers, the problem is not receiving the full questions.
Sure, Ridley, explore the mind an AI, explore ancient ruins of an alien race, explore the mysterious effects of the black goo, explore the complicated family relations of the Wayland family, explore the meaning of life and the origins of man but please don't try to do it in the same damned movie.
I want to like Prometheus and in many ways I really do. To put it simply; Prometheus is the kind of movie you enjoy thinking about a lot more than you enjoy watching. It should have been at least three separate movies with not more than one of them set in the Alien universe.
And don't get me started on how the Space Jockey from Alien is clearly way more alien than the Engineers...