nice scenery, not much else to it!

Rating: 4/10 (12 September 2012)

I went in not expecting very much from Prometheus and unfortunately I got exactly what I expected, a well acted and well shot film that was unable to stick to it's convictions, as other reviews have suggested the film continually looks one way then changes direction and at no great pace or towards any real end game, things are just left behind or ignored. I found the narrative to be very loose and mainly driven by stupid choices and thoughtless jump-the-gun behaviour seemingly in order to get to the grizzly "fight" scenes and to show off some more special effects, thus I found it difficult to sympathise with any of the leads at any point with the exception of Idris Elba's character. Overall not particularly interesting and certainly didn't leave me desiring another film in the already over populated franchise.