Prometheus (2012)

Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Sean Harris

I was very excited when booking this movie. In the cinema they said it was fully booked. I had felt a buzz for a while and perhaps this was it. A great director coming back to his original genre. 3D.
Could it get any better?
They guy in the cinema asked if I needed 3d glasses which I declined. Prudent enough I have saved my original pair of spectacles. The auditorium was close to full and the adverts closing. I was so in for a treat.
How wrong I was.
Fair enough the 3D effect was stunning. The added effect put on post production had really paid off. Stunning. Not to much and just right.
So this is the good part. The rest of the film was mediocre to say the least. Visually stunning, bravo for minimising CGI and some profound questions. It should work but sadly not. It is all about questions and no answers. However the suspense from the original never turns up. Perhaps one should never tamper with an original. It feels greatly that there is no suspense whatsoever and only weird creatures that digest humans and the others alike.
The Freudian undertone is not beneficial and adds nothing. How is it that the crew knows about the founder of the company but not as it turns out about his daughter as it later turns out??
There is no struggle and no element of fear. Just weird creatures and a strange but visually landscape. Is this about biological warfare gone wrong, civilisation or the quest of ageing? No one knows.
This film could have been so much more if Ridley Scott had committed himself. It could pose so many moral, ethical and profound philosophical questions. It fails to answer any of them.
We are left with a stunning visual feast with slimy creature and no substance. I rather would have waited for the DVD.

Rating: 2.5 of 5