Review – Prometheus

I’ve gotta confess to a fair amount of disappointment with this movie. Clearly the original Alien thread had dead-ended. Hiring back the original director, throwing a ton of money into the effects budget and assembling a decent cast were all serious steps in the right direction. But then the writing kills it all. This must have gone through so many revisions that they lost all track of where they were going or what they were doing. The characters are cardboard cut-outs operating from motives that are at best obscure and at worst completely nonexistent. The plot also has serious gaps, as if scenes were cut or rewritten with no sense of the overall story in mind. Either the inevitable director’s cut disc version will be five hours long, or they deliberately made a storytelling mess and hoped the flashy visuals would carry it. Even a straight bootmake (a combination of “remake” and “reboot” that absolves us of worrying about the proper term to use) would have been better than this. Mildly amusing