Simon Bradshaw

Non-spoiler summary: Having watched the trailers several dozen times, I fear I had assembled in my head a rather better movie from which they drew than the one I actually saw. Prometheus is visually stunning, intense, at times shocking (it must have scraped its '15' rating) and with excellent performances from Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, but it also suffers from thin supporting characters, dubious plotting and, above all, a seeming confusion as to what sort of movie it wants to be. Worth seeing, but hardly the all-consuming behemoth of awesome that the buildup has led us to expect.

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