Could, and should have been better

Rating: 3/10 (31 October 2012)

Being a sucker for sci-fi films, I awaited the release of Prometheus with great anticipation. Unfortunately, my expectations were far too high; what started off as a great premise, and a genuinely impressive opening section was soon let down by unlikeable, and forgettable characters (with the notable exception of Michael Fassbender), clunky dialogue, and a swiss cheese-like plot. If these so-called experts and scientists were Earth's supposed creme de la creme of intelligent minds, then we would have no hope at all; a more inept, unprofessional bunch you'd be hard-pressed to find. There is also an over-reliance on CGI, which cannot save this film as you're too busy trying to understand how some of these actors could have been so badly miscast. Maybe this film wouldn't seem so bad if it wasn't directly associated with the far superior Alien films, well, the first two in the series, anyway. Also, maybe if I hadn't just been watching Red Dwarf just before this I might have taken Prometheus a little more seriously. I doubt it.