Dishonest

Rating: 1/10 (7 April 2013)

I share the disgust of other reviewers concerning the lack of logic, poor writing, and plot sequences that are introduced and subsequently left to dangle with no resolution throughout this tragically horrible movie. I haven't read any reviews however that take Ridley Scott to task for his denial that this mishmash of stolen ideas is a prequel to the Alien series.
I believe it was a disingenuous marketing ploy by him and the studio to portray this garbage as groundbreaking and stand alone science fiction. The only fiction here was the pretense that this story would be something original, which turned out to be the biggest disappointment of all. I believe the aim was merely to fill the seats and thus the coffers with yet another poorly conceived CGI blockbuster.
The only shred of originality offered was in the beginning, which promised revelations of the origins of mankind; a concept that was sadly never developed. The rest of the film was a mixture of hastily combined ideas stolen from other, more honest endeavors from Stanley Kubrick and even Ridley himself.
I watched the movie on cable again last night, hoping I had missed something that would tie it all together. Unfortunately, there was no redemptive value in a second look. The "science" is laughable, especially considering what is widely known today. In the movie Alien, the morphing of the creature made some sort of sense, with the tentacled octopus-like creature springing from the egg, inserting itself into the host and finally emerging through the chest of its hapless victim as a somewhat recognizable version of the adult to come. Not so with this movie, which had you hoping the abortion would work so you wouldn't have to witness yet another lapse of judgment by the writers. I don't know where the idea of the squid came from, or the thinly disguised ripoff of the alien emerging from the space jockey, but they were clearly too close to the original, while pathetically plagiaristic in their lame attempt to distance themselves from it.
I mourn the ability of the studios to foster true innovative story telling rather than flashy tripe such as Prometheus that promises much and delivers little.