Mordechai Levinson

Prometheus Movie 2012 Producer Ridley Scott Screenplay Damon Lindelof, Jon Spaihts Running Time 124 minutes ------- A derivative mindless movie that should be overlooked not looked over. ..... This movie was most definitely written for the millennial audience. It has zero discipline or effective focus on either the mission or a story. Each crew member presents limited & narrow self-serving goals. ...... "Let's just do whatever we want. Take off helmets, press buttons, throw responsibility to the wind. I want, I want, I want." …. The Peter Weyland character who has financed the mission’s predominant goal is his avoidance of a personal death. This is not really a mission goal that enrolls or engages an audience’s higher vision. To gain Weyland’s ego driven wish he is willing to risk & sacrifice 1 his robot “Son” David 2 his flesh daughter Meredith 3 he willingly diverts vast earth resources under his control which can be extrapolated as causing loss while impoverishing the people of earth & depleting earth’s resources. …. This movie was touted as being the Alien (1979) prequel. Ridley Scott wisely back peddled & vacillated on that commitment & ultimately dodged the question of this being a prequel. In any event a Prequel or a Sequel needs to stand on its own while it supports the previous movie. A Prequel or a Sequel needs to invite the past audience while introducing a new audience to the franchise. This movie does neither. Prometheus might be mildly interesting for a Ridley Scott Alien audience but it did not invite me as a new audience into the larger storyline. That is unless I relate to a limited view of mankind’s beginnings or purposes. If Scott’s intent was to examine humanities meanings & origins, it is a resounding miss. If this was just a missed application then give Ridley Scott some credit for a missed intent & a poor vision. Sadly Ridley Scott’s Prometheus misses the mark of good storytelling. This movie needs to be retitled A Mildly Interesting Exploration into a Shallow Subject. It is a huge waste that this movie leans on or wants to borrow from the richly textured Promethean Greek mythology. It fails to deliver. This movie is not worth a 1st look let alone 2nd look. That is unless you are looking for the mindless eye candy CIG can deliver. If the viewer’s goal is simple diversion while ignoring life’s richness’s knitted into the textured complexities in the Promethean myth while choking down some nuked popcorn… well then… simultaneously hit your microwave timer button & the DVD play button & vegetate for hundreds of empty calories & 124 meaningless minutes.