24-carat b*llocks with great CGI (if that's your thing. Me, I like a little more)

Rating: 4/10 (26 August 2016)

Ridley Scott does know how to put on a spectacle, but in Prometheus, a kind of Alien prequel, he seems to have forgotten how to tell a tale. And no amount of CGI jiggery-pokery, flashing lights, super-modern looking spaceships and the rest can make up for a poor tale very badly told.
Setting the scene is rudimentary if not an insult to the viewer, the characters are two-dimensional stereotypes with not an ounce of motivation among them, plot elements are peremptorily introduced merely to justify one scene, then forgotten, and to call the the whole storytelling aspect to this film a complete mess would be pulling one's punches. What was Ridley Scott thinking?
Prometheus will surely satisfy any young viewer under the age of 13 who will take on trust what goes on and instinctively understand it all. Those over 13, though, will find themselves increasingly looking at their watch and wondering how much longer it will go on.
I shan't spend a moment pointing out the ridiculous plot holes, inconsistencies and the rest, because that would be futile. And ironically a good film can get away with and be forgiven plot holes and inconsistencies, but Prometheus isn't that film: it is superficial bombastic nonsense with barely a redeeming feature except the special effects and those are now ten a penny in all Tinseltown blockbusters. Sad, but true.