First impressions,they say, are the most important. My immediate feelings as the credits rolled were mostly positive: satisfaction at the thematic ambition, the awesome spectacle, and the seamless 3-D; but i was a little peeved at what i suspect was a slightly overwritten plot. The best example i can give of the scripts strenghths and weakness, without spoiling it to much, revolve around one of the main characters called ' David '. David is a superbly realised Android; but his sophistication makes him all to human:motivations from one scene to another are so inconsistent that he seems to suffering from schizophrenia,or MPD. Perhaps the screenwriters are smarter than me, but i suspect that the characters development was intermitent and subject to to many hands in his construction . Scotts belated return to the Alien is not as scary or atmospheric as the original, as its energies are expended while serving the needs of a much more convoluted plot; also, the majority of the seventeen crew members characters are paper thin and hard to empathise with. In fairness, i should point out that Scotts last sci fi outing was bedevilled by complexity issues, so he might have decided to keep this movie strictly for the pop corn munchers.
This movie is two hours long, but i spent every second of it watching the screen:Prometheus is not a classic; it is not even a minor classic; it is simply a first class piece of sci-fi. A-
This movie is two hours long, but i spent every second of it watching the screen:Prometheus is not a classic; it is not even a minor classic; it is simply a first class piece of sci-fi. A-
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