Far too much that is unbelievable

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2012)

For a big budget movie with a previously successful story line, highly regarded director and very good cast it has far too many B movie believability issues in the writing and direction. They are only worth about a 3 by themselves.
Mostly it is that the crew behaves like it is on vacation in a tropical paradise instead of in an alien environment even after the dangers are apparent. In a well done movie I will forgive one or two believability issues but unfortunately the drama in Prometheus relies on this repeatedly throughout.
My rating was only as high as it was because it still managed to be fairly entertaining despite it's shortcomings. That and I at least found the ending somewhat redemptive and believable, otherwise the story would just be that human beings should avoid space travel because they are far too naive or stupid to survive it. It just pales in comparison to something believably written and directed like Joss Whedon's exceptional Serenity.