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It was decent, I think. I saw the flick a while back and don't have much recollection of it. But I remember it being decent.

7/10

Rating: 3/10

All I'm going to say, is that we should all be thankful that the Alien Harvest script wasn't used.

Older movie makers really need to just leave well enough alone. Bringing back long dormant franchises with the same creators who made them great to begin with sounds like a good idea, but it never seems to work out. The Prequels, Crystal Skull, and now Prometheus. What utter disasters.

I went into this film fully expecting it to be great. The notion that it would be a let down never entered my mind (although in hindsight, it clearly should have). The intro was good, and the environments were pitch perfect. By the time everybody started waking up from hypersleep though, things went downhill. It's just one inexplicably absurd situation after another. We've got a mega-corporation spending untold billions of dollars to send what is arguably the most incompetent group of scientists and explorers in human history to a far off planet. The professional cartographer gets lost. The scientists go about exploring the alien base in the most dangerous, least scientific ways possible. Lizbeth Salander runs away when the crew try to put her back into hypersleep, and they just stand there and do nothing while she resists and runs off to the restricted section of the ship. She gets an emergency C-section from a robot surgeon programmed only for male anatomy (what IDIOT would do that?) and the issue is NEVER DISCUSSED AGAIN. A young guy in old man prosthetics wakes up and reveals that he thinks the aliens who have been developing bio-weapons will make him immortal for no readily apparent reason. A number of other ridiculous things happen, and finally Salander and Charlize run as fast as they can in the direct path of a falling giant spaceship. Salander is strangely able to run just as fast as Charlize, even though she just underwent major surgery an hour or so earlier.

I think that about covers it.

3/10

Good art direction, good visual FX. Everything else is just awful.

I agree with Wyldstaar. Except that pass the good intro, after every one was awake. I realized that the intro was just as stupid as the rest of the film. I mean, the android was eating during the intro. Great visual. But too many loop holes made it a stupid Sci-Fi film.

I'll just add some stuff I think was funny. The cartographer and the other guy who got lost actually decided to stay in the room that they initially want to get away from.

4/10, a tad higher than Wyldstaar's rating because I did enjoy the visual.

I liked Prometheus myself. Knowing it was a prequel to the Alien series was a help and had I not known that ahead of time, I might not have liked it as much. I thought the story wasn't bad and enjoyed watching it. Maybe it's because I'm not a die hard fan, but I liked it enough to consider getting it if I ever get the other Alien movies on DVD or BluRay. I will admit, I try to look at each movie I see individually as well as in the context (if any) to how they relate to other movies. In and of itself, it's worth watching again.

7.5 out of 10 as while it was good, it wasn't best of the best.

(Next movie review should be The Avengers imo.)

I would give this movie a 7.5.

OK, let me first say going into the movie, that while I knew it was "sort of a prequel to Alien" that I didnt let that info alter my mindset while watching it, nor skew my overall opinion of this movie. Im a big Sci Fi fan, have been since I was a child (Im 40 now), Ive seen Heaps of them, good and bad, and I honestly went into this film wanting to like it, but in the end I have to say I just didnt, and that it was quite a mess overall.

Way Way Way Way too many unanswered questions, or situations that made No Sense Whatsoever, for me. Way too many plot holes, or Wha, Huh?? events for me to even come close to making a connection with it, or to even understand what was happening. Visually, its BEAUTIFUL, no doubt about it, storywise, characterwise, dialoguewise, etc its a Mess, and makes little to no sense.

Im all for a thinking mans movie, even in Sci Fi, I like twists and turns in my films, I do, but this movie wasnt a thinking mans movie, it was a movie where basically you had to have a mental link to Ridley Scott to even get half of what was on the screen (heck, Im not even sure HE knows where he wanted to go here). So it wasnt a prequel to Alien, it was a prequel, to a prequel, to a prequel to Alien.......which unfortunately means we have 2 more sequels to Prometheus to sit thru, and that is not something Im looking forward to doing.

Prometheus - 5.5 / 10 (and Im giving it a boost for the amazing visuals here, storywise, it was (again) a real mess)

I couldnt agree more. (<---- link)

Current HCR Member Rating:

PROMETHEUS - 5.36 / 10

(7 members rating)

Such an incredibly boring and stupid movie 3/10

Despite it many flaws i was entertained enough to give it at least a 7. Yes it gave more questions than answers and was slow but it had some good scenes and good acting to get it by.

Let me preface this by saying that I haven't really watched too many of the Alien movies. "Gasp!" (Yeah, I know).

I was not interested in this movie, but the more I saw the trailers, the more I grew interested in it. When I finally watched it, I was pleasantly surprised. I had no real expectations, so it had nothing to live up to. I thought it was well done and was pretty entertaining. So I'll give it an 8/10.

ugh. Visually stunning. I enjoyed "watching it"..... but somewhere along the way the horny teenagers escaped from a Freddy vs Jason vs 10 year old script writers convention..... and landed in this movie. I thought it was more of a horror movie in outer space... with all of the stupidity of horny teenager horror movies and none of the intelligence of good sci-fi.
High points: visuals, alien planet, some of the concepts.....
Low points: stupidity..... "how much more stupid can they get"-type stupidity... like watching 70's Wonder Woman fight scenes with 70's movie Spiderman acting.........

easily a 3 and that's only because it was gorgeous to see....

4 out of 10

I would have given it a 6 or maybe even a 7, but the fact that they tried so hard setting it up as a pequel, only to back out at the very end made it make no sense at all.


So it's a film about the space jockies from the first Alien, has a ship crashed on a planet just like in Alien, shows pictures of Zenomorphes on the walls of the ship, has the same evil company as in Alien, has androids that lack human morals just like Alien, etc... yet it's not] a pequel because:

It's planet LV-223 -I]not planet LV-426.
Not eggs - pods!
No facehuggers -evil liquid that makes squid-monsters that are BODYhuggers
Alien at the end looks just like a Zenomorph, but not really.

Plus not to mention all the dumbass retarded #### the characters pulled:

Biologist gets scared of a dead alien (even though that's a gold mine for a job like his) yet herp-a-derp falls in love with deadly looking penis snake.

Woman running and jumping around hours after getting a C-Section.

The guy who reads maps for a living gets lost even with his map

HE'S ALIVE AND HE'S YOUR DAD OMG NOT THAT IT REALLY MATTERS

lol I just spent more money than god to see these aliens that I don't know for certain are even still around and yeah they're making weapons but whatever, they'll make me live forever

robots are evil (or are they?!) so derp-a-derp Ima put alien oil in your water for lulz

I've taveled untold lightyears and ages to find alien life and when I do, I'ma sad and give up after a few hours just cuz things aint perfect


HEY! LETS RUN AWAY FROM THE GIANT SHIP IN THE DIRECTION THAT IT IS CRASHING!



Dear god, and this is just off the top of my head and it's been at least half a year since I saw it. I can only guess how much more stuff I would be able to list if I watched it any time recently.


I feel dirty saying it, but I liked Transformers 3 more than this film. At least that movie gave you some fun with your dumb. This movie was just dumb.

I'll give it a 10 outta 10 rating for set design though. The film may have pissed me off, but it looked amazing!