DUTCH PREMIERE REVIEW (spoilers-inside)

Fellow fans, these are my impressions of the PROMETHEUS premiere in Holland today: - the movie is much more engrossing and impressive after the viewing. This because the production design is so brilliant, PROMETHEUS didn't need any plot/story development. They could have just played the beautiful images without sound, and you'd still walk out feeling like you saw the ultimate visualization of a William Blake poem. During the viewing, you're distracted by the plot and the acting, which spoils the purity of the visual language - The soundtrack is horrible through and through. The pompous & sentimental main theme never quite captures the creepiness, or the grandeur, of the setting; it does refer to the less interesting part of Scott's career, eg Kingdom of Heaven or Robin Hood - movies that have little in common with the dark surrealism of Scott's science fiction - Scott is clearly torn between his desire to deliver a horror spin on Kubrick's 2001, and his desire to satisfy the producers & ALIEN fans by providing action, gore, suspense, creature effects. The slow, menacing, contemplative atmosphere of the first Act works beautifully, but the action/gore of the Second Act feels rushed, despite some effective moments, like the medpod DIY Cesarean. - Creature design is underwhelming, nowhere nearly as inventive as the original xenomorph (who DOES, indeed, make a comeback, in less thrilling form). The star monster feels like a reverse tribute to John Carpenter, which is kind of silly given that Carpenter borrowed from ALIEN as much as he did - Although most important questions raised by the set-up will only be answered in the sequel to the prequel, the questions in themselves are intriguing enough: for example - what is the meaning of human sacrifice? Or - what does it mean to look at the world through the eyes of an alien? Or - if we were created not by the Christian God but by the Engineers, who then created the Engineers? Et cetera. All in all, it feels like an unfinished project that will only become what it was meant to be when PROMETHEUS II comes out.