Prometheus(Spoiler Alert)

What happens when you start with a good plot and nice execution but decide to have a sequel sometime in future. Prometheus! Alright, I agree - a team of scientists, backed by some wealthy dude, on a quest to figure out where we came from – not a very original plot. But throw in some references to Babylonians, Sumerians, Mayans, not to mention a few cave drawings of stick figures pointing at bright lights in the sky and you can bring some in the audience to the edge of their chairs . So far, so good.

There's a pair of scientists – Elizabeth & Charlie – who thought of the expedition. There's a captain to steer the spacecraft. Then there are a couple of dispensable types – the kind who are at the front of the pack when it comes to dying at the hands of the aliens. Of course, in such teams, a robot who looks more human than the real human beings on board is more necessary than life support systems. So we have David. And then there's Meredith (Charlize Theron) – who turns out to be the daughter of the old guy who has financed this expedition. Early in the movie, we are let in on the secret that David and Meredith don't care much when it comes to searching for mankind's' Mummy and Daddy but have a secret agenda of their own – not hard to guess when you have already shown the holographic projection of the old guy :-)

The movie moves ahead with a fairly tight plot till the team lands on the planet of the aliens who have supposedly put us all on this earth (God, you can be happy now! I have found someone else to blame for bringing me to this earth on my bad days). This is the point when something has to go wrong and it does. But not just with the expedition team – with the movie plot as well. Things start happening and we viewers keep wondering about whether they will be able to tie all the loose ends in the end or not.

Turns out that they don't. But by then the movie has (mercifully) ended, the bag of popcorn and glass of coke both are empty and it is fairly obvious that whosoever has made this movie is already thinking about the sequel.

And you exit the movie hall wondering not about the reason the aliens want to destroy the civilization that they themselves created but about just how on earth (!) can Dr. Elizabeth walk around (and occasionally break into a sprint) just moments after her stomach is split wide open and sewed back by what looks like a row of staple pins!