A brief take on Prometheus

Rating: 7/10 (2 June 2012)

Just back from seeing it (only about a dozen people in the cinema so wasn't disturbed, which was good).
Generally I liked it, there was much to niggle however, it could have been brilliant and it could have been a great direct prequel to Alien with a couple of tweaks.
I won't go into the story itself but just rank the elements:
Visuals - Superb, bar a couple of minor niggles, even the 3D worked quite well 9/10
Sound - Great, lacked the jump moments of previous Aliens films though 8/10
Soundtrack - Superb, linked well to Alien, sat well in the sequences 9/10
Characters - One of the weaker elements, quite frankly I didn't give a monkeys who lived and who died (I would have quite liked a couple of stasis tubes to have failed before they had even arrived), most of them were pretty unlikeable, however David was excellent and Shaw improved as the film went on 5/10
Plot - Didn't explain everything in detail, that's fine I don't need to be spoon fed, though the instant and often wild speculation offered was rather pants, several of the twists were quite frankly stupid and there were enough holes to traverse a Commercial Towing Ship along with it's massive Mineral Ore Refinery through 5/10
Overall - 7/10