Visually stunning, this sort of prequel to Alien came courtesy of Ridley Scott, who helmed the original movie and other sci-fi classics such as Blade Runner, and not much in the way of a script. The trailers for Prometheus - arguably the best trailers to have ever existed in the history of trailers - pegged the movie as something of a sci-fi masterpiece, and that was before anybody had even seen it. Frankly, it looked mind-blowingly awesome. Come release day, though, Prometheus only succeeded in doing one thing: disappointing everybody who saw it. Okay, so that might be a little harsh, but thanks to the cardboard characters acting without a clue, the vague and ambiguous plot that asked all the questions but had no answers, and its highly questionable screenplay, Prometheus felt like a pretty box with nothing inside of it. And here we were expecting the next Blade Runner.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
