Disappointingly shallow

Rating: 5/10 (13 October 2012)

Having patiently waited to watch Prometheus on Blu-ray, and the alternate/deleted scenes, subsequent to viewing the movie, it became apparent that the producer/director Ridley Scott, despite his illustrious career and previous cinematic gems, has dismally failed to convey the intended message. The disparate presentation of the characters, with very little, if any, connection on any emotional level, the non-involved wooden acting, the stale and precariously balanced religious tint, occasionally forced in abrupt brush strokes as in a desperate attempt to pluck the action from its ambiguity, all mashed and kneaded into a laboriously constructed CGI environment - IMHO the only true redeeming quality of the movie - all of it amounted ultimately to a product not quite deserving of its laurels. The premise of discovering the origin of mankind and life on Earth, on the philosophical backbone of the religious/creationist propaganda, was destined to fail to convert as its fallacy is ultimately indefensible. Presenting the human-like aliens as gods/deities - NB immortals - and superimposing on this theory the image of the dead human form aliens bodies is in itself a preposterous contradiction. Also, the proposal that we, and all life on our planet, are no more than a half-baked alien experiment and as we have reached the point of consciously assert ourselves, that we have achieved the evolutionary level of pro-actively decide our fate, against the 'master plan' which would have annihilated us, by removing the ship of doom from the intended scenario, further emphasises that the movie's religious inference is flawed. One of the most contradictory elements was Weyland's request for immortality from a being already proved not to possess such ability, and it merely demolished the already feeble structure of the movie, while it had the most disappointing and pointless substance - or lack of. I am not sure if R.S.'s intention was to actually make the distinction between the concept of god and the need for faith, along with accepting it as a matter of ideological fact, and the impossible materialisation of such concept, against the Occam's Razor type assumption - alien intervention being one very probable avenue - which supports the evolutionist party, yet it stands to gain from neither, unfortunately, as I was left with an unpleasant sense of ambivalence and no sense of discovery. This movie lacks one of the most important dimensions - cohesion - and for that I would have given it maybe 3 stars, though in light of the tremendous work put into the CGI which solely makes this film, I have decided to offer it a 5 star rating.