Can I get a refund of 2 hours and $21?

Rating: 4/10 (12 June 2012)

Wow. Just wow. I am a huge fan of the Alien movies, and I refused to read or watch anything about Prometheus so that I could go in and watch it at the Imax without any expectation.
To start with, the cinematography and CGI is amazing. And Fassbender's performance is pretty damn good, hence the 4 stars.
And then everything else fails.
The plot was lame, the characters were devoid of personality, the aliens (10ft humanoids and a 4 armed squid are a MASSIVE disappointment after H.R. Giger's beautifully scary creations of the previous movies) and there are so many plot holes that I was left confused and full of questions.
One thing that I haven't read so far in the reviews here is how Holloway, after spending 6 hours on a new planet, with new lifeforms and a working alien terraforming facility (all of which would have a normal scientist jizzing all over the walls) is so angry and depressed because (from what I can gather) he hasn't quite found what he was looking for and so drowns his sorrows. Dude! What more could you want?! He was so ludicrous I laughed. And the caesarean? I sat there stunned and speechless! Charlize's death had me face-palming my forehead as I thought "Just. Turn. Left." And it clearly would have taken Noomi more than 1 minute 30 to run from the crashed ship to the pod. Plus she was running = uses more oxygen = would have died much earlier.
The musical score just didn't work. The music from Alien creeps me out so much that I have to skip it when it comes on my iPod. The music for this movie seemed like it was triumphant and for a completely different genre, like The Avengers or so. Prometheus has little to be triumphant about!
I know in many movies we have to just accept weird things, such as aliens and androids and superheroes, but we can't accept the nonsense this film throws at us. And most of that nonsense is the humans. Aliens can go ahead and do weird stuff for no reason because, well, they're aliens and we have no idea how they would react to anything. Humans though, USUALLY tend to get scared of unknown things and vagina-faced-snakes and get upset when someone in their vicinity gets scared/attacked/dies. Scott has lost touch with reality and the foundations of film making. Go away and retire!