Prometheus: Press reviews

'It might not have the pure horror of Alien, and it's certainly not perfect, but for a sheer sci-fi thrill ride, it doesn't get better than this. Intelligent, creepy and utterly compelling.'

'here we have a franchise brought back from the dead and, at the very least, an amazing spectacle.'

'Once the themes touch down and the arc of the story becomes clear, some disappointment sets in. But Mr. Scott's sense of visual scale, which has often produced hectic, hectoring grandiosity, achieves, especially in the first hour, something like genuine grandeur'

'Yet while it lacks Alien's ferocious simplicity and focus, Scott's determination to see his often loopy ideas through gives his film a single-minded vigour rarely found in pictures of this scale.'

'it's something to gorge on hungrily all the same: majestic to look at in every way, and wild enough that many of the opening-night crowd -- this viewer included -- will be right back for seconds.'

' It's a tremendously enjoyable (if ever so slightly cheesy) return to outer space for one of Britain's most distinguished film-makers.'

'an ingenious, well-worked-out exploration of the source and nature of the creature that caused havoc on the Nostromo'

'You can relax. Prometheus is very good. Not as frightening as Alien, not as thrilling as Aliens, but a 3D sci-fi blockbuster that's easily the saga's most spectacular entry.'

'An awe-inspiring, mind-gouging, eye-blazing spectacle of high-pitched disappointment.'

'Prometheus isn't a classic, unlike Alien and Blade Runner, but there are enough quality ingredients to make me hope Scott gets the money to make the sequel.'

'The film is, according to taste, amazing, inspired, formulary, chaotic, cataclysmic, catchpenny or – in a phrase (albeit as long as the spaceship's signature crawl past the camera in the deep-space introduction) – exactly the way it had to be to fulfil so many expectations of so many people.'

'a muddled, intricate, spectacular film, but more or less in control of all its craziness and is very watchable'

'Scott's film lacks brio as it lacks substance; it feels like official art, a terribly sad and sorry ersatz both for seriousness and for fun.'

'It's all a bit of a muddle.'