Needed to be an hour longer

Rating: 10/10 (4 June 2012)

I watched Prometheus last night with my girlfriend and a few of her friends. I thought it was completely awesome but unfortunately the rest of my group did not share my enthusiasm. I am an avid Alien fan and love anything to do with that so perhaps this is a little biased. I thought the concept of this alien genetics lab gone wrong was brilliant. How could you not love such an intriguing mystery, which leads me to my main point; I love how little is explained in this film. It leaves so much to the imagination and I also think that Scott expects a certain level of intelligence from his viewers. The same level I would say he expected from all those who loved Alien. I think that both Prometheus and Alien hold a sort of subtlety which expects you to already have a pretty good grasp of humans and what drives us. That being said the rest of my group did not understand anything about the movie, like "why that android was being so sneaky" and so on. I cant wait for the next 2 movies and how they will slowly explain all the incredible mysteries of the series to us! That is why I gave this review a 10 mark. Not because I believe it to be a 10 movie (in reality I would give it an 8) but because I simply must see the next 2! And if the haters keep knocking it, none of the mysterious questions that have them so bitter will ever be answered..
Enough with the positives; the real negative of this movie is the lack of character development. You really had no idea why characters behaved in the way they did. The worst part for me was when the crew of the ship just decided to give up their lives so easily and happily like it was going to be fun or something (they should have fled the ship with Charlese Theron and perhaps died from shrapnel outside whilst their captain took one for the team). An extra hour for character development would have been awesome! But other than that a fantastic movie for all those who like to ponder about the mysteries of life, alien life, creation and science!