A diamond in the Rough

Rating: 7/10 (20 April 2013)

With the return of a visionary director to a genre that he helped to define, with a cast of talented actors and with lots of love for the source material, PROMETHEUS is a movie that should have been an instant classic. But instead it falls short of being something truly remarkable and stands as a sort of enigma to viewers everywhere.
First things first, Prometheus isn't a bad movie and it's not deserving of the popular bashing now being synonymous with it's name. It's also not a very good movie, as it's deeply flawed and plagued with pacing issues, character underdevelopment and confusing plot points. Instead it stands in the middle of those extremes. It's a movie with some very good ideas, that were lost somewhere along the way and ultimately failed to reach it's true potential.
With faults being directed at screenwriter Damon Lindelof (LOST) and plot holes being counted by the hundreds, i can safely say i don't feel like it's any of those issues that breaks the movie. Rather it's a deeper and more collective issue that plagues the entire process. This is a movie that is not sure of what it wants to be. It wants to be a solid prequel to the Alien franchise, a philosophical study about the origins of man and a golden age monster movie. And it's either all of the above or neither.
To conclude my points, this is a movie that does a lot of things right, but also takes many missteps along the way. And while it's nowhere near the quality of movies like BLade RUnner or Alien, it is nice to see that Scott hasn't lost his touch on what makes a movie gorgeous to look at. I do think that everyone should watch it at least twice to gather everything it has to offer and to draw their own conclusions about the movie in general.
Good 7/10