2300+ reviews late, here is mine

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2016)

i recently watched a video titled "Prometheus Actually Explained (With Real Answers)".
The video actually answers cleverly many questions that were buzzing around the internet when the film first came out, and which have helped generate the bad reputation of the film, in turn being the reason why i didn't watch the film myself. Honestly, i would have figured most out by myself because, you know, i'm not a retard, but there's still a few things in the film which are near unforgivable.
****massive spoilers from now on, for those who have not seen the film and also have no internet access.****
The plot of Prometheus is quite different from the one the trailer implies;
A scientific expedition is sabotaged by a meddling android under commands from the owner of the evilest corporation ever put on paper.
Visually, the film is glorious, although it almost understates the visuals - i respectfully believe that if they had made the visual aspect more of a centerpiece, the film would have had more success.
Some of the events in the script are really retarded; a control panel made of stone? A Xenobiologist hugging an obviously enraged animal?
Or, for example, the android David offering the poisoned drink to Holloway; although the scene is plausibly believable from the character's point of view, it's also completely obvious to the spectators. Did the great Ridley Scott actually forget how to shoot a film?
Charlize Theron's character is stupid beyond belief. Who thought that "woman who stands still a lot" was going to be interesting deserves to lose their job. Weyland's "uncanny" makeup is a weird choice, i don't know what they were shooting for but i really did not enjoy seeing a blatantly young person poorly disguised as an old man, with tons of closeups to make the effect even less believable.
The film is also quite slow .. rather than "poorly paced", i would say it's the opposite, too evenly paced, without any moments of particular excitement or action, as opposed to, say, the android-going-berserk scene in Alien.
About 3/4 through it finally picks up the pace, when the Weyland-led remains of the crew head in to meet the last Engineer. At this point, they have found out the entirety of the plot, what the goo is, their creation, the demise of the engineers, and Weyland's reason for setting up the expedition in the first place. The ending is rather simple and the entire plot might be too simplistic for the audience to feel satisfied.
In the end, you have to share the same mentality of the last few survivors to enjoy this film; that going forward to simply meet your creators is more important that what common sense tells you... expecting, perhaps, to find God.
If, on the other hand you share the opinion of Dr Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) that creating life isn't such a shocking revelation, then you'll find the entire film rather insipid - it is, after all, a creation myth film.
Scott clearly states his religious inspiration for the film, if not directly *in* the film, and, exactly like religion, it's a load of bullshit.
Alien, for example, relied on a simpler emotion - fear. Prometheus attempts to rely on the emotion of revelation, but for many this will be more mundane than divine.
Having watched the film on a small screen, i missed out on much of the audio-visual aspect, but maybe this allowed me to focus more on the story itself. I didn't find this film too horrible, if anything i would say, it has many good things about it, but it lacks punch, something that generates really strong emotions; it's an effortless journey, but the destination isn't particularly great.
As for the film's terrible reputation, i would say it more due to it being judged on the success of other films, rather than on its own strengths and weaknesses, otherwise it could easily be on par with films like Moon, if not better. Sadly, it did the same for me, as watching it i could not help thinking how much better the characters in Alien were, and how much better they were used.
It's an OK film; kinda bland. i'm gonna have to say...
6.5/10 - such a stellar production, such little film.