- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- Release Date: Jun 8, 2012
- Starring: Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace
- Summary:
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Horror
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 42
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Mixed: 17 out of 42
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Negative: 1 out of 42
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100A magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.
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60The script, partly credited to Lost's Damon Lindelof, is so filled with talky lectures about divinity (and boner plot holes) that you realize, with embarrassment, that Scott, at age 74, wants to join the cosmic company of Terrence Malick. Does he not think that making a drum-tight horror film was ambitious enough?
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Jun 5, 201238It aspires to Stanley Kubrick's "2001", but in its maddeningly unresolved plot threads and cornball cosmic mysticism, it lands closer to "Mission to Mars" -though Prometheus lacks any action set piece as gripping as the Brian De Palma film's sentient sandstorm.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 283 out of 459
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Mixed: 48 out of 459
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Negative: 128 out of 459
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