Slightly more annoying that Alien4 . . .

Rating: 1/10 (11 June 2012)

While watching Prometheus I was unable to suspend disbelief, due to the sheer number of terrible decisions, poor plotting/characters and an appalling script, which is very unusual for me.
I wanted to love it, but even scenes deliberately designed to conjure excitement by referencing other films, and Alien itself, were spoilt by the need to rush to get to the next plot point. It seemed every time they were starting to build to something interesting, they would show the reveal almost immediately. Less is more, and allowing breathing space would have heightened our anticipation in seeing inside the space jockeys room etc. Ironically, if they had cut out half the movie (rather than add more to the inevitable d.cut)and spent more time with the characters/environment it would have more satisfying. And there is no Ripley. Or indeed anyone worth caring about, which is a pretty big thing for a film so concerned with 'humanity'. And on the subject of less is more, just because you can now show everything from DNA to Spaceships to Aliens through the use of CG, doesn't mean you have to. Alien had none, and people will be talking about that film far long after Prometheus is forgotten.
Below is a shortened list of annoyances I personally came across whilst watching -

Why does Shaws hair blow in the wind inside her helmet??? - Why cast a young man as an old man? - Why does the goo do different things to different people? - How is Shaw running around after surgery? - Why were the three of them so happy to kill themselves at the end? - Why does everyone just go and have sex while there are two men left behind to die in the temple? Is there nothing better to do after you find life on another planet?? - Why travel all that way based on spurious assumptions? - Why do none of the crew seem to realise what mission they are on/appreciate its importance? - The plot is entirely based on conveniences - they land next to the only 'man made' structure on the planet? - Why do they suddenly go racing off as soon as they land? - The characters are the stupidest I've seen outside of a teen horror. - Why do the engineers want to wipe us out anyway? - If a giant spaceship is rolling towards you, roll sideways, not forwards. . .

Prometheus cannot decide whether is is Alien or Avatar, and ends up a dumb sci-fi cousin to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.