Of the caliber of an Aliens VS Predator movie

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2012)

Ridley, please hear this: If this was really YOU ...something you thought was going to be great...and not just you wanting so bad to do another Alien movie before you die that you didn't care what mess the script was like; then please STOP NOW before you put your hands in the Blade Runner cookie jar (as is rumored) and ruin that for everyone, too!
Everyone else: There's no 'science' in Prometheus, only re-warmed 'fiction' that a 2-year old could write better, and it's use of 'horror' consistently arrives with unintended chuckles.
Outside of Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, the movie could have served just as well with splice-in's of actors in 50's B-movie roles. And that amazingly includes Charlize Theron, and also the normally-capable Guy Pearce in age-makeup that barely betters that of the Back to the Future series.
I do facetiously appreciate Idris Elba's sudden, out-of-character & random 'exposition scene' sandwiched just past the mid-point of the film. You know your story is a lost-cause when it's not thorough and deep enough to force people come to the conclusion on their own, and you just don't have any patience left to try and nurture that understanding because now it's time to "bring it on" (the action).
The creatures all look completely fake and unbelievable, including those that may look familiar to you. Think Alien3's level of monster-believability. Not only that, but there's a complete lack of consistency between how the creatures in this film adapt. And I'm referring to that as it pertains WITHIN this film; not in comparison to the other Alien movies.
And don't worry: you'll have PLENTY of time to contemplate all the nonsense going on, too. While the original Alien probably holds to this day as having had the best suspense of ALL the Aliens movies (including Cameron's sequel), here Ridley seems to just be waiting/hoping/praying for something to happen. Knowing that it was going to be a 2:15 min movie, I happened to glance at my watch when I was hoping it was near the end, only to realize that only an hour had passed. (!)
I don't even give Ridley credit (as some are) for astounding visuals. Remember the intense, lonely feeling of landing ON a totally alien planet when the Nostromo sets-down in the original Alien movie? (A feat never since executed as well again by anyone.) --As you might suspect from the commercials...don't anticipate that here.
Probably, the worst of it all is in the last half-hour when it feels like they made-up the script as they went along. You WILL have the feeling of one of those poorly-executed prequels where the writers are desperately trying to shoehorn the story to match the movie that comes after it. Needless to say, there is one HUGE, honking continuity error (that at first seems like they might have got right). To me, it was this moment when I finally KNEW for certain that I had just watched an Alien VS Predator -class movie, and not a groundbreaking piece of cinema from an accomplished auteur like Ridley Scott.