Exemplifies what 'commercial' sci-fi flicks are all about nowadays

Rating: 5/10 (18 April 2014)

I see a lot of people have gone to great lengths (maybe wasting too much time) to give this movie the proper booing it deserves. The current good score (7,1) of Prometheus can only be explained by the not-so-good score of another current movie that shows what sci-fi flicks should be like - Europa Report (6,5).
The problem seems to be that if you replace the explosions and hyper-expensive effects with a little bit of thinking, the movie doesn't fare as well.
And Prometheus actually received good reviews from all over the place - in part few people dared say something about a Ridley Scott mega-movie. But the rest is just good business. As if the whole selling machine just pushes 'the product' to the masses. And with the bulk of the media getting owned by giants like News corp I guess that is exactly the case - they make the movies, they write the reviews.
... Despite the nice packaging Prometheus is just an abhorrently silly and hyper-expensive joke that doesn't deserve the attention it gets. Its budget would have probably made for 10+ movies like Europa Report that are worth seeing but few people see - and sadly - understand.