Totally forgettable, rehashed ideas from other films.

Rating: 6/10 (10 June 2012)

Prometheus starts out a mystery and ends with many questions. What does the opening mean? Neither of us could tell. This is before Alien yet the technology is more advanced than Alien and Alien was further in the future.
Also, this advanced technology can show what a person is dreaming while asleep but it can't show what is inside of an ancient, abandoned space ship. It can't show that there are bodies, living and dead, in that same spaceship until much, much later.
We were expecting this film to end at a point near where Alien starts but that idea isn't fleshed out completely here.
This film is just a mess with ideas sort of flung in the wind that end up not being satisfying. There is a tedious feel to a lot of this. A lot is happening but it isn't very fulfilling nor interesting. The scene that had the most impact is that of a woman crew member who chooses to enter into a surgery booth and have surgery performed on her without anesthetic. The rest was rehash from other films, other ideas we've been exposed to before.
Sorry Ridley, this didn't work for me and I won't remember a thing about it 3 months from now. Time for something completely new. I suppose the acting was very good, the film is nice to look at but there isn't anything interesting here.