Anyone seen Prometheus yet? I was really looking forward to this one and I came away quite disappointed. I seriously didn't like the direction they took with the (briefly masterful) Alien series.

I can't really go into it without entering spoiler territory but rather than focus on the good stuff, I felt we got a cringe-worthy story about the origins of mankind with the Alien universe seemingly tacked on. Seriously, why did they have to even bring the Alien universe into it? It could have been a movie that stood on its own legs ala Event Horizon, Sunshine or District 9 but no! As is, the whole concept feels incredibly forced and things I adored about the first couple of films (especially the Alien pilot, one of my favourite HR Giger pieces) now feel somewhat cheapened.

I think the biggest problem is definitely with the script though. The movie could have actually been quite amazing. For starters, did anyone give a damn about any of the characters bar David? Personally I couldn't wait for them to all perish! Aside from the totally undeveloped, cannon-fodder generics (one is particularly laughable and made me think of Benjamin Button), the amount of things that go unexplained, the stupid things the characters do, the totally unrealistic things that happen (the best scene in the movie is also the most laughable), the cliche scares with zero suspense...It's so frustrating!!

There were a number of viral videos which were really quite amazing and setup the story quite well. None of these were featured in the film which is fair enough (I suppose?) but for those that hadn't seen them, the film will lack even more coherence. Why didn't they at least put the freakin' Weyland speech in there??

When it comes down to it, Prometheus is a Jurassic Park ripoff with the dinosaurs replaced by the Borg from Star Trek. If that floats your boat then you'll no doubt love it.