What a waste

Rating: 4/10 (7 June 2012)

An earlier reviewer says "ignore all the negative reviews" - well I say don't!
I paid £12 to see this. I've only got 15 DVDs at home and Alien is one. I went to see this because this is Ridley Scott - the creator of Alien, Blade Runner & Thelma and Louise.
It was such a disappointment for all the reasons most (honest) reviewers have already said on here. Illogical and incomprehensible with no worthwhile script to speak of. No character motivation or common sense. People do the craziest things for no apparent reason and yet these incidents frequently take the story nowhere.
I liked the way that, overall, the film dovetails into Alien but the details of Prometheus just don't add up to a coherent narrative. It is not believable given the environment that the ship's team find themselves in. How is it that a team member who is an archaeologist suddenly, later in the film, manages to re-program a very rare medical device? Where did this remarkable skill suddenly come from? This is only one of a barrage of questions that this film throws up that really have no answers but seem to be done only to create an 'event' in the film.
Avoid. Such a shame and an opportunity seriously missed.