Explains the Alien storyline - Movie mostly for aliens and sci-fi fans.

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2012)

Well I was just in the theater and watched Prometheus.
As an avid Aliens fan, I know all the movies, and have read most of the books out there. But I also read the interview with Ridley Scott, saying that this was not an Alien movie. So I went in, not expecting any aliens, but a good story.
And the story was good. It explained a lot of the story before the alien movie, and answered a lot of my questions.
I don't know if Ridley Scott have read a lot of the aliens novels out there, but it seemed he had the same ideas as to what has been written about the "Space jockeys". I really liked that, intentional or not.
Most of the characters, were unfortunately very shallow, lacking depth. Too many introduced, and no real focus on them. Pure stereo types of some sort.
Fassbender did really well though as David, the android.
The visuals were amazing, nice and crisp. Good looking and well worth watching in the theater. The 3D part though, while great looking, was too few and far between to be really necessary to watch in 3D.
Again, as an avid Aliens fan, I will only rate this a solid 7. Where the original Alien is a 9 and Aliens is 10 in pure awesomeness.
But unless you are an alien or sci-fi fan, i would not recommend it for ordinary watching. It will leave you with too many questions, and too many things not understood.
Especially as some of the characters, are seen in more detail on the internet commercials and TED talks. If you haven't watched them, you will not get their points and meaning.