Dismal stuff.

Rating: 1/10 (4 July 2012)

Well really it's all been said by others posting this sort of score, so rather than repeat that, let me try to get to the nub of why this film seems so terrible to me.
When I watch a science fiction film, I want internal consistency for the plot and the (pseudo)science and believable behaviours from the characters.
In Alien, for instance, we know why the crew are in space and so do they. We see that some of them are well educated and highly motivated - the officers and engineers, and some are blue-collar and motivated by money. In general their behaviours back up these characters. When the exploratory team leaves to investigate the alien ship, you really feel the environment, they act the way you think they might. When they come back with Kane and the "face sucker" there are sterile procedures which Ripley tries to enforce. We see how these get overridden, we believe.
There is none of this in Prometheus. Everyone is a cypher, from the ice blonde controller (who oh gosh is Wayland's daughter - didn't spot that coming)through the android to the gung-ho black pilot - who should actually have been chawin' a big ceegar like the top-sergeant in Aliens, to really stamp the card.
No one behaves logically in the face of any external threat, and there are bizarre holes in the pseudoscience for no apparent reason.
I said I wasn't going to list all the faults that others have done before me, but they are peppered throughout this atrocious "B" movie. Only worth 3* because of the visuals, but that's no reason to go and see it. In fact, I just demoted it to a 2*