Bound to happen

Rating: 9/10 (11 June 2012)

Alien prequel was bound to polarize fans, and I grudgingly agree with many thoughtful critiques herein. I loved Prometheus, and I expect it will improve, rather than degrade, on multiple viewings.
The original Alien was claustrophobic, terror in confined space. Prometheus is expansive. True, the second half feels like a runaway freight train, but it's hardly slapdash (bad metaphor, sorry). The film accelerates so quickly that before you know it, you feel like you're in over your head - as do the characters.
Intellect without soul (David) vs Faith alone (Shaw). Any quest for the Creator may lead to insanity, and every character in this film is off- kilter to varying degrees.
Of course it makes no rational sense to be lost in an alien tomb and try to "make friends" with a dangerous infant. But that's the point. Sanity has been lost, and can only be regained, if at all, by finding the true source of your Creator.