Review: Prometheus
 

It’s been exactly 30 years since Prometheus director Ridley Scott delivered his last science-fiction thriller Blade Runner, a film so beautifully crafted it now serves as a kind of gold standard for the genre. But where Blade Runner blended sci-fi with detective fiction, and served up a memorable tale of robots more “human” than their flesh-and-blood inventors, Prometheus piles up random plot points and meaningless references to other movies (including both Blade Runner and Scott’s other sci-fi success, Alien) without developing anything resembling a coherent story.? [ Read more ]

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I'm a fan of Scott's other sci-fi films, but most of the press I've seen on "Prometheus" has been similarly unkind. Unsurprising from the guy who wrote "Lost," which began with much potential yet ended a convoluted mess.

Guess I'll wait for this one on Netflix.