needed another 30-40 mins to flesh out characters

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2012)

First off, I was very entertained by this movie. It was suspenseful and visually stunning. The main complaint that I've heard and agree with is the weak character building. Prometheus has the opposite problem from The Dark Knight Rises, in that the movie needed another 30-40 mins to flesh out the characters to make us care about what happened to them where I feel the Dark Knight Rises was 30-40 mins of useless filler and boring dialog. I hope and fully expect that the blu-ray will have a directors cut that will add in scenes that movie needed to give the characters more life.
The other complaint I've read is that the movie doesn't answer many questions at its end. This I disagree with in that the best movies in my opinion don't spoon feed the answers to the audience and let people come to their own conclusions. I like it when a director believes his audience is intelligent enough to come to their own conclusions and discuss. Pulp Fiction comes to mind with unanswered questions and that movie is a classic. Also, this is meant to be the first installment in at least two movies, so they need to leave some things open ended.
All in all, Prometheus is an entertaining but flawed movie in its theatrical release. I will definitely be buying it on blu-ray and anticipate seeing the next installment when it hits theaters.