Film review: Prometheus

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16th June, 2012

Film review

Ridley Scott has the soul of a decorator. He makes pretty films, and the basic grammar of his visual storytelling is always watertight, but his body of work does not hang together in the way the phrase “body of work” seems to imply. If an auteur is someone who stamps a strong personality onto his films, he is an anti-auteur. Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down could have been made by three different directors.This is not in itself any sort of weakness. His ability to work so effectively with two different sets of screen writers, concept artists ...

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