Weak Script, Fantastic CGI

Rating: 5/10 (13 October 2012)

In 2091 a team of scientists travel, on the good ship Prometheus, to a planet that may explain the origins of mankind.
It appears no one ever watched Star Trek TV shows or the movies. Too many things went against logic especially in a distant, perhaps hostile, environment when the team arrived on that planet. Mr. Spock would not be amused.
First of all the audio sound was very bad and it was difficult to hear clearly dialogues much of the time. The music.. Wait, there was music? I thought I knew what Guy Pearce looked like, but I still have no idea which character he was. Not addressing each other by name much of the time didn't help matters to let us get to know who was who. Yes, we did know who Charlize Theron (as Miss Vickers) was: the beautiful blonde.. We knew who Michael Fassbender (David the Android), was because that was clearly pointed out to us. It wasn't until the last half of the movie we knew who Noomi Rapace played. She was Elizabeth Shaw and her name was bandied about quite often in the last half of the movie. (Hey, she is not exactly well known to American audiences and without that dragon on her back it was hard to tell, ha ha). And, we did know that Idris Elba was Captain Janek. Okay, so much for character development or recognition or none of the above.
But some things boggled my mind: You don't send out a probe on a unknown planet to investigate a hive or pyramid structure that appears man made? Hey, you have a gadget to map out the hive! You don't let it go and do its job? You don't test the air for air pollutants inside the hive even though your instruments tell you the air is breathable? You don't touch a black liquid ooze not knowing if it would liquefy your fingers even with gloves on. You don't bring back an alien head back to the ship without knowing what it is all about. You don't decide to animate the head with electricity and end up blowing it up? Why would you touch a snake-like form you have never seen in your life thinking you could make a pet of it with soft, soothing and endearing comments like you were getting to know a pretty kitten? You don't perform a C-Section on yourself to get the thing (not a baby) out of your stomach? Okay, maybe in 2091 that would have been possible.
Many, many other things didn't make sense., but too numerous to list here. The scientists acted more like kids in a candy store than actual scientists, hence there appeared to be no order to investigating this planet and the hive structure. Like I said, Mr. Spock would not be amused.
The billionaire who promoted and financed this venture wanted a cure for old age and thought the aliens on this planet would provide that. He was made up to really look like "old age personified." Really bad. Who was this person? Who played him? For a minute I thought it was Christopher Lambert, but no..it was someone else. He was the father of Ms Vickers (Charlize Theron), but there was no one else in the credits with Vickers as a last name. Bummer.
Why did Blockbuster go out and buy 20 additional DV Ds for this one store? The only thing that comes to mind is that this movie is treated like a date night movie. Yes, there are many scary parts in the second half of this and your date may be inclined to cling to you for dear life.
So what was good? The CGI, of course. Very , very good. Also, you can keep your SUVs, and foreign sports cars. I want the ship Prometheus. Very impressive. Great sets. I think fewer scientists would have made for a better, more controlled, more logical story. In many way, this was rushed as there was just too much to cover. Or maybe it just seemed that way. Pity.
This started out really good and there was reason to believe we may have " learned" some things about our origin even though they would have been made up. Hey, this is still a fictional story. But, at times, Star Trek gave us something to think about, but nothing in here did that except for one thing: The aliens who may have been us back in the day wanted nothing more than to destroy us. That seemed to be the overriding theme when all was said and done and that was never explained. Prometheus 2? Hmmmm. (5/10)
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Only one F-bomb was heard. Otherwise nothing else.