Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (10 June 2012)

Why spend a bazillion dollars making a movie with impeccable production, top-notch actors and state-of-the-art effects, yet invest so little into having a story to tell? The story is the (very) weak link here; its stunning lack of cohesiveness, overuse of dei ex machina, terrible character development, laughable plot points, gaps in logic and breeches in common sense and glaring absence of a point all combine to insure that the film is likely to be remembered as a folly (by which I mean something constructed to look amazing but having little actual substance or purpose). Fans of sci-fi tend to be fairly smart people and such an ad hoc, shoddily slapped together story is an insult to our intelligence. Prometheus has nothing so say. It is almost as if having a story was considered little more than a minor but necessary component of a larger construct—a pretext in order to make a movie with cool effects. This could have been a great movie but, alas, it was merely mediocre, certainly not worth the ticket price, and likely not one I'll watch again.