Movie Review // Promet.... oh fuck me its a Alien Prequel

The Alien franchise. Ah, the glorious Alien franchise. I'll admit it now, I'm not a huge fan of the world of Alien. I saw the first movie in high school and never got around to seeing the others. So I went into this not sure how it was going to go. And oh my God, I was not prepared, I was so not prepared. Prometheus is fucking awful

The basic gist of it is this: two scientists find a map to a planet out in the middle of the space. This planet may hold the answer as to who created us. And the basic plot follows. Yeah, this plot is basic. Humans go to planet to discover lost city, blah blah, get eaten, blah blah.

That's actually a really good way to sum up this movie, a whole lot of meh.

Before I delve to deeply into my hates of this movie, I would like to give the film a few props.

The Good:

One: the cinematography is gorgeous. Now, granted, there isn't a whole lot of color, but it looks stunning. The camera does a lot of sweeping of the landscape and its really nice looking.

Two: The actors were all decent. I bought all of them as their characters. I loved Charlize, I love Naoomi (I think that's how you spell her name). Almost of them all did fantastic for what they were given. I said almost.

The Bad:

Plot:

The plot of this movie is pretty generic. It feels like we've been in this pool before, and frankly, I'm sick of swimming in it. I won't rag too much on this aspect though, because it is an Alien prequel and these follow that type of plot.

Actor:

I mentioned in my good section about how almost all the actors were decent. Sadly, not all of them did a decent job and my number one was Michael Fassbender. Don't get me wrong, I love Fassbender but he was so damn lifeless in this movie. And I know, he's a cyborg, but he just did nothing.

Characters:

I have never seen more dull and lifeless characters in a movie in years. I don't remember a single characters name, they were that boring. They were simply put, canon fodder. They all pretty much had "I'm gonna die" written on their foreheads. The only character who has any sort of development is David, and he's a friggin cyborg.

The Story:

Man is there a lot of questions that don't get answered in the film. The beginning with the alien makes no sense, why they want humans dead is never explained. We get absolutely nothing in two hours except surprise, it's an Alien prequel.

Final thoughts:

While the film looks gorgeous there isn't enough substance. At two hours, its painful to sit through and that's really disappointing. I wanted to like it, and overall, it was just meh.


Final Score 2 out of 5 face huggers.