I actually liked the movie up until roughly the middle. Up until then it was a great suspenseful movie. After that, it fell apart piece by piece.

From what I've heard, some of the scenes in the theatrical cut are out of the original order, so lets hope a directors cut can fix this film.

Bad movie.

Reading comments on reviews of this movie, it's obvious that opinions are divided and usually divided between people who loved Avatar and thought it was a great movie because it looked great, and people who thought Prometheus sucked because it made no sense half the time. I can tell you I'm with the second group: the plot has so many holes, it puts Swiss cheese to shame.

Where to start? Half the time, characters don't react realistically. Considering this mission cost a trillion dollars, they give two archaeologists the lead when they clearly have no clue of how to run things. Safety procedures are completely thrown out of the window except when it makes for a nice movie scene (like when Charlie wanted to get back into the ship). How about when they, on a whim, decided to try and get the alien head come back to life? One of the biggest discoveries of mankind, and they decide to screw with it and made it explode just like that. Or what about the scene where Eli operates on herself and then gets her wound stitched up with staples, walking back to find the old man and no-one wondering why she's covered in blood and has staples in her belly? Let alone her walking around after such intensive surgery. And when she walks around and nearly doubles over in pain, it's like everyone else is going "la la la, not seeing her in pain, la la". How did she get back in the space ship? It flew up, got hit by Prometheus and then crashed and somehow, she's able to go back inside and find the head of the android? Really? It's easy to cut from outside to inside without an explanation.

Really, the movie is a giant mess. It's a train wreck. The first 30-40% of the movie made it look so promising but as the movie went on, it got worse and worse and worse. What happened to movies these days? Some people actually have the nerve to compare this to Blade Runner and say "they weren't big hits back then either".

Blade Runner's original ending was butchered, that's why. The original cut of the movie was brilliant and had many underlying ideas without it making the "obvious" elements less enjoyable. Even if you didn't get that Deckard was probably a new type of android, it still made for a great sci-fi slash action movie. Even if you didn't perceive the big question about who decides what makes a human being, it was still a great movie.

Prometheus, however, tries to be clever despite being full of holes and that simply doesn't work. Being clever requires having an air-tight plot where the tiny cracks are there to hint at things that you might not catch the first time. With the tons of gaping holes in Prometheus, this is simply not possible because there's nothing close to anything air-tight to be found. You can make up answers to some of the questions, but the answers just are not sufficient. Why did the engineer and geologist become lost, for example? Some say "well duh, a storm was coming up" except they left long before the store was a fact and the geologist had a nice 3D map thanks to his OWN flying robots. He's supposed to be an expert at mapping and then somehow gets lost - seriously? And, of course, instead of waiting out near the entrance where they can quickly get ready when the storm has died down, they go to the room with a lot of goop on the floor right where they found the beheaded alien. Yeah ... who on earth would pick that room to spend the night?

So yeah, it's a good movie as exercise to spot all the plot holes but that's about it.

Prometheus would be a desent movie by any director, but this was made by R. Scott and most people know he can do better than this.

Oh well, at least that annoying guy got toasted and we got a couple of good shots of Charlize's rear.

Did anyone here ever mention that Jesus was a Promethean or whatever those aliens were?

That's one theory which is pretty shaky. That theory goes that those aliens wanted to make humanity peaceful so they came several times to create a peaceful "religion" and appeared before mankind to instruct them but it failed many times. Jesus was the last chance they got and then they decided to destroy mankind for its sins.

The reason why I said it's shaky, is because they basically appeared in front of different people at different times but mankind was spread across the world - it would make no sense to try and unite people who haven't even discovered each other. If these aliens were so advanced, they wouldn't have done it in such a pathetic way.

That would make more sense to me. Hell, Ridley Scott even thought about it.

I ... Uh ... What have I just seen? It was ... Eh ... There were things happening on the screen and they didn't really make too much of a sense. It seemed like a nice prequel that could have shed a bit more light on the Alien universe lore, what I got was ... Eh ... I suppose it has pretty much confirmed the biologic weapon theory, at the very least. But other than that ... What!? They should write that as a book, because someone clearly didn't get nearly enough time to properly delve into all the storylines this movie tried to convey, so we get a lot of nonsential pieces of story here and there that doesn't quite come together to create ... Anything at all. And ... Uh, the whole bit with surgery just should not have been there, really.

The movie made no sense. Terrible writing. Riddley was on crack hiring that douche bag from lost.

I really don't see what everyone is complaining about. It had some issues (the fact that the movie didn't seem to have any idea what it was trying to be, for instance), but I didn't think it was at all incoherent or bad. In fact, I found it thoroughly engrossing and enjoyable.

This video sums it up pretty well:

Red Letter Media talks about Prometheus

Lol...what? there was no consistency, no logic. There was almost no plot. It had nothing of what made the original Alien so great. You'd have to be lobotomized to appreciate this movie.

And yet my medical history reveals no such procedure. Curious.

Don't be hasty. Maybe it was aliens.

Or the Think Tank.

Ye gods there were some major issues with this movie, and I was really expecting something great given the director and the universe it's based in.

Having said that, I actually still enjoyed it despite some of the stupidity in it. I'll likely pick it up on Blu-ray when I can find it on sale.