Big disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (23 June 2012)

Please note that I'm a big fan of the first Alien movie. The other movies were superfluous to me.
Prometheus does not have an interesting storyline. It's a reenactment of the first Alien.
The picture is beautiful, but the ambiance ordinary. I was expecting to be scared, but I was not at all. The first Alien's feeling of claustrophobia, which I think made the movie so great, was absent.
The alien creatures in this movie were in plain sight all the time. That made them not scary. The design of the creature (squid + tall guy) were not weird as the original alien, making them ineffective. Also, for a race of advanced engineers, they seem to have the IQ of cavemen: all infected humans and engineers are just regular ghouls of classic horror movies (except that they don't go for your brain, they just wan't to kill compulsive manner). The life cycle of the creatures made no sense to me at all.
The greatest strenght of the original movie was the realism of the characters played as blue collar workers. Their reactions were all plausible. On the contrary, Prometheus characters are the usual gross Hollywood caricatures. They do not act as a realist team of scientific explorers. Here are a few examples: how could an isolated team of two scientists be left in an alien spaceship without constant monitoring? How come such a group of scientists be so unprepared as a team for such an important mission (with so many incompetent members)? Why are there no biological contamination precaution taken by the biology scientist? How come 3 members of the crew suddenly and without hesitation decide to go kamikaze? The whole movie follows roughly the pattern of the original Alien, so there are no surprise. In a sense, it's a weak remake of the original.
Ridley Scott had poor writers. Too bad because some of the actors there were of quality. But what can you do without a decent script? If you're a die hard fan of the Alien franchise, see this one at the theatre. If not, wait for the DVD.