Forgettable

Rating: 6/10 (12 June 2012)

I love the Alien franchise. When I heard about Prometheus around 6 months ago I had been waiting in anticipation ever since to see how it fared against the original.... 'Alien' is a classic. Great cast, great spread of character personas and just has a feel of quality. Prometheus lacked memorable characters, in fact they were drab to say the Least. The story had me excited in the beginning especially being one with lots of questions about humanities past and civilizations pre history but the more the story unwound the more I felt disappointed. I honestly feel it was poorly written and the score lacked creativity and passion. It could have been a masterpiece......yet I feel it was designed to be more of an introduction to a new separate cluster of alien films....more of an entrée than a full course meal and in that give it the benefit of the doubt.......you know those films where you watch 2 hours and think ' a lot of nothing really happened' ? It could have been condensed into a 1 hour TV episode...... I'm going to see this film again to see if it was just my frame of mind on that particular day, or if I hyped this movie up too much in my own mind but as it stands it didn't live up to what it could have been.