Anecdotes of the starry-eyed girl: Ridley Scott's glitzy but ditzy sci-fi

Prometheus hasn’t exactly got the most prolific release in

India

. But one may still feel the urge to not miss this one.

Reason number one: It’s a Ridley Scott film.

Reason number two: it’s a sci-fi Ridley Scott film. The excitement was palpable and with good reason. Scott gave us the chills with 1979’s breakthrough sci-fi film Alien and then perfected that genre with Blade Runner (1982.) He returns 30 years later with Prometheus and no he hasn’t lost his touch.

Dazzling design, technical mastery and the specialist of special effects work very well together in Prometheus and almost cover up a very basic flaw, that of a weak storyline. If only there was a smashing story.

Alas, there isn’t.

Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) are two archaeologists at the heart of a life-changing startling discovery (that’s how it’s projected but hardly how it seems). In 2089, they’ve found a 35,000-year-old cave painting that shows humans worshiping an enormous figure who’s pointing to the stars. What’s more, similar paintings spanning various civilizations over several centuries have been found (slightly unlikely).The scientists believe that these paintings point to the origins of life and where we came from. Lo and behold, a rich benefactor to spend trillions of dollars is found and off they fly in a spaceship (named Prometheus) to find the reason for our existence.

There is a scene in the film when other members of the motley crew onboard is explained their mission. They seem a trifle unconvinced – we felt the same.

As the mission progresses and the crew find this planet in some corner of the Universe, please note they seem to find it easily enough, things start going wrong and the body count starts increasing, starting from the least important actor to the most important one.

What kills them and how grisly are the ET’s this time is what you can hope to discover should you choose to watch Prometheus. Amongst the other actors Michael Fassbender as Prometheus’ very own android is chillingly perfect and Charlize Theron as the spaceship’s captain is chillingly wasted.