Disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (18 June 2012)

A truly promising beginning to the film with some excellent questions being asked about religion and some intriguing ideas about us being "engineered" by an alien race very similar to ourselves (see Space Jockey in Alien). The story continued quite well with good suspense, excellent acting and superb visuals. Some of the best visuals I've seen to be honest, first film I've seen since 2009 that I though had better visuals than Abram's Star Trek. Unfortunately it seems as though the writers of Prometheus decided that this superb introduction to the story didn't deserve a real ending, and copped out of addressing any of the questions raised earlier, while Scott resorts to some visually disturbing horror to keep us interested. I wouldn't criticize this element if it wasn't so very similar to the horror of Alien. This coupled with the (unfortunately) expected ending of Rapace's character being the sole survivor (unless you count androids of course) is also annoyingly similar to Alien. The difference of course being that while Ripley in Alien is a truly sympathetic and lovable character, Rapace's character isn't likable enough for me to even remember her name.
The annoying cop out ending, coupled with some references to Alien without serving as a good prequel (see screenrant's article on how the filmmakers could have made it one, you'll see it had potential as a cheap, moneymaking prequel, which unfortunately would be better than the real life result), and very little in the area of character development leads this work to be less of a pseudo Alien prequel that stands on its own and more of a bad reboot which tries and fails to copy the elements of the groundbreaking Alien series. This coupled with the disappointing Robin Hood and the surprising decision for a Blade Runner sequel, shows us that Scott is just not the man he used to be.
Prometheus receives six stars only for its stunning visuals, excellent exposition and good acting (as good as it could be with such flat characters)