Prometheus

Spoiler impressionology! It's been exactly ten years, give or take a few days, since I saw the first Alien, the film that piqued my interest in cinema as a whole, and the question of what came before has actually been gnawing at me for a decade. So from a purely subjective point of view, I have no reservations about it because the film answered my questions. First of all, it confirmed that the aliens are a biological weapon that probably cannot be controlled by anyone. So far, so good. But when I look at it with hindsight, aided by a brief post-film debate, I don't quite understand why the writers had to break the film into survival horror in the second half, endowing the characters with the logic of incompetent teenagers. Visually, including Streitenfeld's excellent audio, there's nothing to fault it for (well, except for Weyland's mask, that's horrible) but there's not a single climactic scene, something that would draw me to the movie theater for a second screening. This is actually a huge shame because, for the first hour, Scott was creating a more interesting world than James Cameron has recently. After leaving the theatre I was ready to give it four stars, given that the marketing campaign had gone beyond me, but I thought about the film a bit too much during the twenty-minute journey home. (06/07/2012)

No one said this was going to be a prequel to Alien or 2001: A Space Odyssey. The trailers promised me stunning visuals, a generous dose of tension, and a mysterious enemy. The movie delivered on all of that and added the unpredictable David, the determined Elizabeth, and a breathtaking story where the answers to questions must be sought, not just heard. Prometheus thus became a surprisingly refined sci-fi, which will continue to mature for a good few years. (06/18/2012)

Alien was a film based on one simple premise (horror from the unknown), and the way Scott managed to play on a single emotion in a masterful form - paradoxically, the simplicity of the film ensured that the experience from it does not age for even a second - the horror and panic are captured in clear and virtuoso form. Prometheus is based on roughly three premises (the relationship of the creator - creation / faith / fear of the unknown), but none of them can even make it to the embryonic state. To put it bluntly: the script is awful. Half of the characters act as if they have just undergone a lobotomy, the metaphysical overlaps are resolved by repeating the word "faith", and the most human and best-written character is an android. The jump scares are cheap, as well as genre props (olms and a crab man, WTF?), there is a complete lack of the finesse with which the terror in Alien was composed from the a dense soundtrack and a masterfully composed image (some of the action scenes are pure routine)... On the other hand, I appreciate that even though Ridley is already noticeably running out of breath and ideas, Prometheus still has a magnificent artistic solution and your head spins from the giant scenes. In the end, I wondered if this film was needed in terms of the "aliens" of the series - the answer "about as much as everything after Aliens". So the answer is very little, or not at all. He answers the few questions with the help of cliché, and he doesn't open any new ones (even if he really wants to). The deep disappointment can be explained by the fact that the expectations were set elsewhere by the fault of the creators, i.e., something other than an "action horror B-movie with an A-movie design and a philosopher from McDonald’s". I will be mourning until July... [50%] (06/01/2012)

When white and white together give birth to black, the result is Alien without an Alien, like Jára Cimrman’s “Hamlet" without Hamlet. It’s not compatible with the Alien mythology but it overflows with today already cult and specific “Alien" atmosphere more than anything else made after 1979, you have to give it that. Just a shame that it pretends to be cleverer than it really is (even though it’s hard to say, because it’s just the first half) and double shame for the surplus of unnecessary characters. Visually captivating in some of the scenes it’s without exaggeration impeccable (David’s space routine, birth giving through abortion, fall from the heavens), but as a whole so far (at least till the director’s cut or a sequel is made) it just damn good. (06/07/2012)

Prometheus is a pretty decent sci-fi, but at times it has almost fatal sci-fi related flaws. It begins at an amazing pace. The story is timeless, imaginative and it has a great pace due to the strange atmosphere. The second half is much weaker, everything begins to be a routine and the worst of all is, spoiler alert, the alien finale. That really pissed me off. Prometheus was supposed to be pure sci-fi with everything it entails and not the prequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien. The whole time it made a completely different impression and in the finale he turns it into this and thinks I will fall on my butt… I feel really sorry for that. Visually, it is absolutely amazing, and that also counts for something. (09/03/2013)