Starring : Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Patrick Wilson, Logan Marshall-Green, Kate Dickie, Rafe Spall, Sean Harris
Prometheus was promised to be an incredible film with an opening series of prequel trailers that featured Peter Weyland the founder of an expedition into space that would see humanity discovering and contacting the ancient race of proto-humans that allegedly created humanity of planet Earth. Travelling months into space, a team of 17 travelers travel to a distant planet in another solar system to make contact. They discover ruins and little life, but something else more sinister crawls on the surface of this broken world which can sustain life within the depth of its caves. Will the crew make it out alive?
I had seen a few trailers about this film but had no clue it was tied loosely with the Alien film franchise. It doesn’t matter; the photography and the suspense on this film were great, although the threat was mild to say it nicely. The film has been out for a while so I can spoil it now. There is this gooey liquid that was created through the DNA of one of the proto-humans and a strange black liquid that has taken over the planet and is very much alive in a primitive alien form and that needs human drones to evolve into a bipedal creature. One by one members of the crew are taken out until one of the infected crews survives incineration and disables the rest of the surviving crew. Meanwhile of the proto-human called the Engineer was revived from deep sleep and is hell bent on destroying all human life, including distant planet Earth.
I really like the set designs and the interface used by both the proto-humans and the Earth crew. There was some gore but nothing too disturbing. Well, ok, there’s this one scene where this Earth scientist gets live surgery performed on her, where a creature is extracted from her bowels and she’s stitched back together by the machine that just operated on her. Yeah, that was expedited and crazy. Ok, it was disturbing.
The movie’s logic is at fault though. For example, after having survived an attack from the Engineer and seen all of her fellow crewmates die, and of course after having been impregnated with an alien creature and operated on, scientist Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and very Christian-thinking, despite clear evidence to the lack of a God in religious terms, decides that instead of returning to Earth, she’ll just set sail to the Engineer’s planet. No mention of food supply or anything of the such are made. She just wants to expect to ask the proto-humans what they were thinking when they put humans on Earth. Oh well. The movie does ask the question about who created humans and related stuff about God as our maker but although it’s implied with the strength of a hammer, it’s still not well developed or argued philosophically. One would expect this film to have a sequel, but I understand it’s a prequel of the Alien movie franchise so the point is moot.
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