I really wanted to love it.

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2012)

Just saw Prometheus tonight. It's like being served a pile of crap dipped in gold. While at a glance one will counter balance the other... neither is edible. The actors and actresses are great. The 3D effects are stunning. The screenplay is abhorrent and reminiscent of a TV show that cant remember what's happening week to week. If you imagine another 2 hour movie in between the scenes of ever changing and unexplained 'antagonists' then this moving might be a great prequel. However, if you watched the 2009 Star Trek and wondered why the Romulan Star Empire didn't commission at least 2 people to save their entire planet, why no one could calculate the speed of a supernova, and why red matter had to be delivered into the center of a planet to be effective, you probably wont be buying the DVD no matter how many lens flares they use. The biggest let down for me was they cast an actress like Charlize Theron and didn't use her. They basically made her static eye candy. There was some foreshadowing that she would play a pivotal plot point, but like so many things in this movie it fizzled and was never mentioned again. Also, this might be considered a plot spoiler but since it's unexplained in the movie anyway it's not a big one. Why did the mutagen substance finally become an alien?!?!? It did something different every time they encountered it.. squid babies, smallpox type disease looking thing, a snake thing (on it's own), super zombies, and it changed the murals painted on the ceiling just for kicks, and finally the alien. Why? Nothing new was added to the mix... why not more squid babies or super zombies? Oh one of the lead scientists was a 'true believer' supposedly and really liked her cross. They gave this plot point plenty of screen time and revisited it over and over just to make sure you get the idea. I really really wanted to like this movie but I get angry when something that has so much potential is ruined by bad plot and writing. Everyone else did their job though so I'd say it's worth seeing in 3D and then promptly trying to forget everything that happened.