Look, it was okay...

Rating: 8/10 (21 October 2012)

Despite personally having come across a lot of problems with this film, the reason I have given it a reasonably high 8 is because, at the end of the day, I did enjoy it. It kept me watching throughout and, for me, was one of those movies where you actually do mind if it is paused when you need a toilet break. Overall it made sense (despite an awful lot being unexplained - I can't help but feel I may contradict myself quite a lot having said this), and at the end I didn't feel like it was another couple of hours lost of my life on another pointless film. Nevertheless as aforementioned, I do have a good few issues...
1. I enjoy a film where at the end you're talking to all the people you watched it with about the endless interpretations that could have been made, as much as the next guy... although you need to be given something to actually go on. I feel Scott maybe left it too open to interpretation. For me the plot needed more stability so that we could actually discuss it and go, 'yeah that makes sense!' rather than, 'okay yeah maybe... but wait no what about this... oh yeah that thing... yes! No! Yes! Oh I don't understand.' I have read loads of interpretations online, and so many make sense, that it almost renders the film purposeless.
2. Continuity. For me this can be a movie make or breaker - I think it is so important... and too many nowadays have some serious blinders that you're left sitting there going, 'how the hell did they miss that!!!'. Unfortunately Prometheus was no exception. Of course there's the obvious, how can she join the search for the Engineers, encountering lot's of running, violence and being thrown to the ground countless times after just having had an alien ripped out of her abdomen with just a few staples to hold her stomach together and prevent the contents of her abdomen from literally falling out of her. Okay - maybe the movie wouldn't work if she would have to spend the next few days recovering from her surgery. But what really made me *face palm* was when the ship is rolling having just been blown out of the sky, and falls down. Elizabeth finds David's decapitated head nicely placed next to his body... would they not have just been thrown around quite a bit? falling very neatly next to each other in an almost artistic setting seems a little unrealistic (yet I could say that about the film as a whole...).
3. Character development was seriously skipped. There were too many people who, rather than barely being developed - probably didn't need to be there at all. I'll leave out the stupid biologist and other scientist guy who were the first to be killed off, and the few other crew members who kinda appeared now and again mysteriously but never said anything, but I found Vickers a bit unnecessary. Probably due to her relationship with Weyland. I feel one main emphasised points in the film was the poorly delivered, '...father.' line. Really? If we were supposed to really get into the politics of the mission in the first place, it should have been given a little more dignity rather than shoving in a silly cliché.
Despite all these problems and believe me more, like I said, I enjoyed it. It was overall a good film and I'm glad I watched it. Visually it was, as anticipated, pretty damn good. But what I really want is for Scott to sit down and go, 'This is what happened...'.