Review of Prometheus (2012) by Writing1 — 14 Jun 2012

The special effects may be splashy, but they serve a brainless horror movie, a third-rate knockoff of Alien. The problem is in the writing, which is clumsy and superficial. The plot suffers from trickery, the dialog is silly, and the characters are preposterous.

I expect a science-fiction movie to take some liberties with physics, but I expect the characters to be somewhat believable and the plot to hang together. Extended space travel I can accept better than, say, the ship's low-life captain.

This horror movie doesn't raise serious questions about human origins; it merely contrives a way to set up a sequel.