Poorly Executed

Rating: 5/10 (30 May 2017)

Starting from the beginning, I thought that the cave drawings were a believable and quick segue into the bulk of the movie. Now let's start off with the expedition itself, these scientists are going to travel for years to another planet, where they believe the alien race that created them resides. On the most expensive and significant space voyage of all time, they are completely omitting the possibility that the aliens will be hostile. If this alien race created them, then they are obviously far more technologically advanced than humans, yet the voyagers on The Prometheus take few precautions. Right off the bat they rush into an unknown building with no surveying and pretty soon are taking off their helmets and may as well be licking some strange alien goo. Also they have reason to believe that an unknown entity (possibly the goo) killed all the aliens from the holograms. When people start getting killed and infected, they show time and time again to be unprepared in terms of quarantine protocols, communications, and weapons/security. These are just the problems with the actions and decisions of the crew. Secondly the unknown black liquid substance is completely unrealistic, muddled, and confusing. The black stuff created zombies, squid babies, snake like creatures, and of course the alien. Why not just simplify it and have all exposures to the virus lead to the alien? It added nothing to the story to have all the different types of monsters, all it did was draw attention to the unrealistic biological nature of the substance. Thirdly almost all of the characters were wildly underdeveloped; most characters didn't have adequate screen time or backgrounds to make us care about them when a alien snake jumps through their helmet and into their throat. Finally would love to somehow find out more about how the black substance turned on the aliens as this question and many still haven't been answered in this movie or the sequel.