Expensive Garbage !

Rating: 3/10 (3 January 2013)

While Ridley Scott's (Prometheus - 2012) alleges a new story and viewpoint, it's his (Alien - 1979) all over again, with nearly the same characters, atmosphere, and maybe events; including ones from other Alien movies. True it's done with huge budget and more ambition, but sorrowfully filled with dumb uninteresting everything!
This round, it's not about the dangerous unknown, being represented in unintelligible monster, nope, it's about who mainly has created the known and the unknown; namely god, or - in the movie's viewpoint - gods. That looks deeper and catchier, putting in mind mixing it with the "thrill", "horror", "sci-fi", and "action" factors. But don't get so much excited, because this movie replays its stately original badly, while merely replacing the unintelligible monster with unintelligible monster god; which happens to be way less powerful, and less cool by the way!
You must get lost amongst clips from the previous movie, or movies, the weak plot, and the unanswered or postponed questions: Why David secretly infected Holloway with the ampoule's dark liquid of the so-called engineers? If the dark liquid was in our water since ages, why the humanity didn't turn sick, giving birth to monsters like what happened with Holloway and Elizabeth? What is that dark liquid in the first place?? Why Weyland is kept in the ship without anybody knowing except David and Vickers? And what could be the point of Vickers being the daughter of Weyland? (Ok, that guy must have given birth to her while he was 170 year old!), why Vickers forgot all about Shaw after Weyland's death, wanting to go back to earth without her? The event of "let's destroy the god's ship for saving the earth" seemed like a made-up James Bond climax for a movie that didn't have any. And all the matter of "I'm pregnant with a monster", aside from being repeated from the Alien series, it's too forced to be believed, they like affixed it after the script was completely written, just to fabricate a reason makes this pathetic remake a late prequel!
The rubbish talk about those engineers as the gods was killing me out of rage! Whoever wrote it needs a serious religious help. I know he has all the right in the world to imagine and argue, but ultimately, he went to nothing. His script is sort of soulless and mindless. It doesn't reach to a proper result; otherwise the gods are destructive creatures, they sleep then wait and wait and wait to be awaken, so they can re-continue destruction. What's this? (P.S: add a psychological help as well!). The thing is the script provided some sophisticated-like "questions" for the sake of upgrading a "thriller", while not answering the questions or making any great thriller at last. What a shame!
The character of Elizabeth Shaw, played by Noomi Rapace, seemed at the end as a take on Ripley, the heroine of the original movie played by Sigourney Weaver. Clearly they wanted to recreate a new heroine, with another history, trait, and aspects. This one is more interested in "knowing" more than "fighting the alien". However, that intention made a hideous irony with the movie's hoped for intellectual side, especially after the fallen of it eventually, and your discovering that there was no top action or thrill along the way either. So it came down to the ugly fact that this movie nearly had no goods to sell! The character of David, as performed by Michael Fassbender, had a lot of potential. It could fit a movie of its own. But alas. It didn't do much here in the middle of this mess of many uncompleted stuff!
I was disappointed the most in Ridley Scott. I longed for something from the Midas Touch that brought us earlier the original Alien of 1979. But he directed this lousy remake / prequel as another Hollywood sci-fi thriller, which didn't present much as a sci-fi or thriller. And its theory about god, the creation of life, etc. was laughable. Plus the way it linked itself to the Alien series was terrible. Come to think of it; if this movie wanted to give info about the origin of Alien, then what did it annex? That when half human half god-like freak rapes a dying god-like, then their bastard is The Alien??!!
The most, or only, perfect thing that this movie ever did; had to be the exotic backgrounds which embodied the unknown seductively, plus couple of nicely created and excused sci-fi details; the really inspiring "disclosing flying puppies" and the so-wild-it's-a-bit-creepy "entirely electronic surgery".
Prometheus is actually nothing but a reboot for the Alien franchise, so it may be launched again into a whole new series of movies, a la many reboot movies done lately such as Casino Royale (2006), Star Trek (2009), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). As the movie's Weyland, Hollywood wants to live forever, but it must search for another god else remaking, otherwise it will end up being exactly like Weyland; insanely rich, awfully old, and spending astronomical sums for trying failed tricks to live longer!
My title is the first thing I have said after finishing this failed trick.