So, 30 years after his last SF film, visionary director Ridley Scott has returned the genre he so deeply marked in the late 70s and early 80s with his films Alien and Blade Runner. The thing about Ridley Scott is he can not tell a terrible script
from a wonderful script. If you hand him a wonderful script you are likely to get a piece of cinema that will be breath taking in it style and in it substance. If you hand him a poor script, you are likely to get a watchable but ultimately pointless film such asKingdomOfHeaven, and if you give him a crappy script, you will get junk that looks like gold.
Sadly, Prometheus falls into the final category, a visually stunning, conceptually audacious, but ultimately an epic failure in terms of character, plot, and logic. I saw Prometheus in 2-D, and this is the only time I have regretted skipping the 3-D format. Scott used the frame with all the mastery of a visual master at the top of his form, some scenes I expect would have truly stunned me in 3-D, but they would have not saved this film. Continue with the review knowing that you will be spoiled.
