Priority One: Insure safe return of millions of $$$, all other considerations secondary. Story expendable.

Rating: 4/10 (21 June 2012)

I know the reason why the Space Jockey / Engineer wants to return to Earth and destroy it: to wipe out all mindless Hollywood screenwriters.
How they related something masterful and perfect as Alien with this nonsense? This is what happens when movies are not done primary for passion and love but only for winning lots of $$$, it is OK to win money, but at least earn it with something good, lots of Sci-fi folks were truly hoping for something much more than average in Prometheus. My buddy and I, both sci-fi and cinema lovers, were really upset when the movie was over.
All the bad reviews you've read are correct ! Bad writing and bad characterization plagues the whole movie; a bunch of Eagle Boy Scouts lost in a dangerous jungle would behave much better than the 'scientists' portrayed here.
Yes, in Alien there are also some poor character decisions, but they are made within the story, not to serve the script, and a bad one this is ! And the people in Alien were miners, not scientists, which behave totally off character in Prometheus.
I love excellent Sci-fi that blows your mind, love the Alien universe, Ridley Scott is (was?) one of my favorite directors. Why did he allowed this?
The music is almost bad. A surprise because the music in many of Scott's films is outstanding.
Alien 3 is almost a masterpiece compared to this, really, no pun intended, at least it handles well the drama; Prometheus, no drama no suspense at all, you do not care about anyone or anything....And even Alien vs. Predator already has the Erik Von Daniken type of plot about ancient civilizations and extraterrestrials and also Wayland goes for the ride...been there, done that. Boring, boring, boring. Did someone in preproduction noticed this before saying yes to the script?
The mythic Space Jockey is reduced to a mindless The Thing From Another World (yes folks, that classic from 1951) monster, a man in a suit is now replaced by CGI; at least back then it was groundbreaking, now, it is boring and lame.
I feel totally betrayed by Scott and company, they have morphed in an evil cinematic Weyland-Yutani company that only cares about money. Story expendable.
The Good: Michael Fassbender's android; though his motives within the story are not clear (again, bad writing).
2 or 3 precious minutes with David, the android, doing housekeeping before waking up the crew. Very 2001, very cool.
The FX and cinematography, of course.
Somehow, the movie is not boring, but there is no drama you simply do not care. Just shut your brains and engagement and go for the ride.
The bad: almost everything else.
Prometheus, as it is, is a movie that should have never been made. Surely it is another mindless Hollywood Bantha fodder that, except for the visuals and cinematography, any unknown director could have made.