Summary execution of Prometheus 1, based ten minutes of P2.

Rating: 1/10 (17 June 2014)

I have only seen the opening sequence of Prometheus 2, so I do not pretend that my review is fair. I've watched many, many films, and I have to say that the beginning of this film struck me as powerfully awful and pretentious, bringing with it the promise of endless, tedious ennui oozing onto the screen. Some films offend immediately, and so I give short shrift to these. I've never seen a less promising beginning to any film -- it begs the viewer to tolerate what can only be described cloying, self-indulgent awfulness. Clearly these films appeal to the adolescent love of computerized special effects gone wild. Like the truly horrid Armageddon of 1998, nothing appeals to the viewer beyond a deadly tedious excess of essentially dull and mindless, and painfully extended gimmicks. There are so many films worthy of our attention, and when a film commits all of the deadly movie sins we know of, and does so in the first five minutes of the film, well, who has time to suffer through the entire comatose deadliness of the thing. Next!