Not quite what I was expecting from a great director.

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2012)

The opening scene promises another visual greatness from the director that brought us "Blade Runner" and "Alien," and yes it never failed in that area. After three decades, Ridley Scott's Prometheus served as a prequel to his classic "Alien" film.
It is filled with colorful stars including Noomi Rapace, whose talents were discovered by way of her role as Lisbeth Salander in the Millennium Trilogy. Here she is the equivalent of Ellen Ripley in the Alien Franchise, but maybe it's not right to compare them. She is joined by a robot just like Hal 9000, but you can say that he is "more human than human," he is played brilliantly by Michael Fassbender in yet another unique role. The other cast includes Idris Elba, the captain of the Prometheus, that's the name of their spacecraft and obviously the title of the film, Charlize Theron in her villain-like role, she is employed by her father to monitor and to control the situation at every move, her father played by Guy Pearce in make-up, is the elderly founder of the corporation that funds the spacecraft and the one who sent them off to mission, to find the mysterious origin of humanity. The plot is pretty disappointing when you've arrived at the revelations.
The other characters played an inevitable role that requires them to be the casualty in a kind of film that needed a body count to develop the uprising of terror and deliver us to its climax. The story seems forced, and at times confusing. The script is poorly written, giving characters dry exchanges in their dialogue. Aside from Shaw (Rapace) and David (Fassbender), the other characters are just member of the crew waiting to be killed, and they act like one, and I didn't like it because it's predictable.
Prometheus didn't answer the questions it dared ask, but adds more questions, Ridley Scott at 74 is still searching for the answers in the world he created, or maybe he had found the answers but is expanding his thoughts before revealing it to us, I admire his brave mind, but maybe it's time to move on to a new idea. We expect in this prequel that our question may be finally answered, but we were wrong, some of it were answered, like what made the Alien exist, but generally I didn't like the answer, the story wasn't impressive for me, and I just think that it's better if it was left unanswered. The problems in the story development and the script prevented Ridley to give us a great sci-fi, though there are few scenes that caught my eye, including the scene where Shaw took out her baby alien. It's a fair sci-fi film, but it's disappointing coming from a great director, I expected so much more.