Prometheus

Ridley Scott lied through his teeth leading up to this film saying that it isn't a prequel to Alien. Which all of us who have seen the movie know that it more or less is. It isn't (in my opinion) in that it is before what a prequel to Alien should have been. And there are some things I really liked about, and things I really didn't. The premise I like. Humans in search of their beginnings find what could ultimately be their end. This review is a bit spoilerish (Not totally) so if you just want to know the bottom line skip to the end. If you don't care. Read on...
From jump street there guy taking a gun on to the planet is asked why he is doing so. He is told that this is a scientific mission. LIKE THAT MATTERS. Because you have no idea what lifeforms may or may not be here or may or may not be hostile. I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
Then ere is clean air in the cave, but you NEVER TAKE OFF YOUR HELMET! Disease this is an alien planet that is forever away from Earth you don't know what is floating around there. When they took off their helmets all I could think of  was Buzz Lightyear saying, "My eyeballs could have been sucked from their sockets!"
Screw the old man' and his Iron Man get up. He is a useless character. Throw him away put his brain in the robot. CONSOLIDATE. I don't need him showing up for 2 seconds to get slapped around by the angry natives and die. And Theron I love her, but she served no purpose as well. NONE.
RAPID FIRE: What is up with the zombie man? With all that technology why bring an ax in space? Why do they want to kill humans?  Why use and overly elaborate biological weapon? Why not fly to earth 2000 years ago and squash us like the bugs we would have been (probably would be now)? How did the tummy staples from surgery not rip out during all this running and jumping and her entrails become her extrails? Why does the computer for the Alien ship operate by means of breast implant buttons? And where did the aliens that killed the humanoid aliens go? Plus many more...
Those were all the questions it didn't answer. The one it did was: "Where do we and they come from?" more or less...
The cast was fine. Even though the majority of the characters they play serve absolutely no purpose. Noomi Rapace is our heroine. She is does a good job. She helps deliver some of the most intense scenes in the movie. Michael Fassbener is our android friend "David" who gives off a very creepy vibe in a very good way. Charlize Theron is in charge of the operation because the company that she works for has funded this trip. Other than that, she is totally useless.  I love her, but she serves no purpose. Not even as eye candy. Idris Elba gets and honorable mention as the captain of the ship because his role could have encompassed Theron's role, and also because he was on The Office. Guy Pierce is the old man who owns the company that funds this expedition. He was like 92 and supposed to be dead. He should have been. his character did nothing but take up space and look bad. Everyone else is waste because in a movie like this you need enemy fodder.
I saw it in IMAX 3D, and that was awesome. There were a few parts that I felt as though I needed to put on a seat belt because the picture ans sound was great. There were also some really intense scenes that really embed themselves in your mind. In your mind. But there weren't very many middle ground parts. it was kind of all or nothing and left me a little unsatisfied. The base story I really like, I just don't fee like it was as tight or polished as it should have been.

END!!! Overall it raised more questions than it answered, but did have an entertaining quality to it. It wasn't as intense as the trailer would lead you to believe, and there were some things that didn't fit or might have fit had they been clearer. I felt like this movie in the series, much like most of the cast, was unnecessary. I see it as more of a stepping stone to more of the answers and Alien lore that I, as a geek, desperately want want.