Maybe needs a second viewing to appreciate

Rating: 5/10 (5 June 2012)

'Prometheus' is another case of a trailer not being representative of a movie. The trailer had me more amped for this film than even 'The Dark Knight Rises' but unfortunately it didn't deliver as promised nor expected.
Stand alone, 'Prometheus' is a good popcorn flick. But that is not what a lot of people expected. We expected terror, a sinister underworld of snarling debauchery. A prequel to Alien (even though we were told not to expect the latter). Instead we get....very little.
Michael Fassbender aside, the characters don't seem to offer much. We have the feminine lead. We have the love interest. We have the engineers who don't want to be there. We have the captain who is loyal to the end (isn't there always an end for him?). We have an ice-cold maiden plus the rest of the fodder that only serve one purpose by the end. They all seem very one-dimensional and there was no empathy for any of them. I couldn't find myself 'rooting' for them. They come and go as they please and I personally felt no remourse for any of their respective 'departures' during the movie.
The positives of the movie are few and far between but I gave it a 5 out of 10 for a reason. Ridley Scott does a great job with the visuals, creating fantastic landscapes of a distant planet. It almost feels like he's been there and came back to show us all what it looks like. Furthermore there almost seems a sense of truth to his visions of why we are here and how we got here. It's......interesting and as I said previously, if you know nothing about the movie or the hype surrounding it prior to watching it, it's fairly enjoyable.
However, this is planet Earth; we've seen Alien, we've seen Aliens, we've seen Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Body Of Lies, American Gangster, Robin Hood, the list goes on. We know what Scott is capable of. And unfortunately this is not it.
Save us Dark Knight.