Prometheus (2012)

At one point in the middle of Prometheus (dir. Ridley Scott), I actually thought it would take the following route: humans go to weird planet to look for anchestors. They come upon a few monsters and a bunch of corpses. They board the ship again, disappointed. So much for looking into the Grand Origin of Humanity. End of story. Of course, it did not turn out like this. Prometheus is not the Nietzschean culture critique it should have been... or something. Nor did it develop a critique of shady corporate interests going on behind the backs of everyone. Prometheus opts for the pompous, the quasi-religious. The thin storyline was augmented with just as cheap effects. Yes, some scenes look good, but there is no point to anything. We've seen plenty of the twists in the film in earlier Alien films, so there was really not much to write home about here; one may even speak about recycling, and not in a good way. My most positive judgment about the film concerns the design of the settings: great job there. Plus it was fun to see the familiar landscapes of Isle of Skye in a film. Another fun aspect of the film is the choice of role model for the sentient robot David - Lawrence of Arabia as the prototype of humanity! Do we sense cosmig significance? Not really, we sense tacky. By any means, this is not 2001: A Space Odyssey.