Solo4114
Master Member
I rewatched Prometheus the other day and realized the film would have been great with just changing three characters: Charlie, Fifield, and Millburn. Those three are so poorly realized, written, and performed it's hugely distracting. They make all the WTF decisions and actions that make them entirely devoid of credibility.
There's a bunch of WTF stuff in the film, but the behavior of the characters makes the least sense to me. Fifield and Millburn in particular just seemed like they were lifted out of, like, any Friday the 13th film. But even some of the nameless characters act in a really dumb way, as I recall. The movie was a bit opaque in what it was doing, in terms of explaining what the black goo was, what all the critters were and where they came from, etc.
Anyway, maybe the film makes more sense if you rewatch it knowing what's going to happen, but I just thought it was a film with a lot of potential that was either unrealized or frustrated.